On Sep 13, 2009, at 17:03, Jack Howarth wrote:
Back to one of the first bugs I found in MacPorts 1.8.0 when building test packaging for the molmol molecular modelling program. I have determined that the glw component is working fine but have some concerns about the missing gui widgets in the motif interface of molmol being due to an incomplete installation of x11 in MacPorts. This leads to the question of x11 virtual packages. Do we have some way to install a x11 virtual package that would trigger the installation of a fairly complete x11 installation? My understanding from Jeremy Huddleston was that all MacPorts packages should be built against the x11 packages in MacPorts and not the system or X11 Xquartz x11 installations. It might be useful to be able to effectively achieve a complete x11 installation in MacPorts via a virtual package rather than to require the user to depend on individual packages understanding all of the required x11 components they should depend on. Specifically, I am wondering if something could me missing from my MacPorts x11 installation that doesn't break the molmol build but effects the execution of molmol under these x11 libraries.
We want individual ports to depend on the individual X libraries they need, and not pull in everything just because it's easier for the port maintainer.
If you want a complete X on your system, the port to install is the xorg metaport (or virtual package, if you like). This brings in the xorg-server and xorg-quartzwm ports, and the xorg-apps metaport which in turn brings in a whole lot of apps. If you don't want the apps but just want the X server and Apple window manager, just install xorg- server and xorg-quartzwm.
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