On 20 May 2006, Jacob Meuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 10:09:15AM +0300, Liviu Daia wrote:
>
> > I have a simpler question: is there any plan to make installing
> > xbase a requirement in the foreseeable future?
>
> no. nothing in {base,comp,man,misc,game,etc}XX.tgz depends on anything
> from xbaseXX.tgz, and that is extremely unlikely to ever change.
[...]
Ok, let me rephrase this. How realistic will be to run an OpenBSD
firewall or router without xbase a few years from now?
With the release of 3.9, there seems to be a new trend among port
maintainers to make running a systems without xbase a PITA: packages
of console applications now depend on X at run time even though that
could be avoided with minimal fuss (example: mrtg), compiling ports that
don't depend on X at run time now requires X (example: nmap-no_x11),
and building ports without xbase is now unsupported (FAQ 15.4.1). So
what I'm asking is: is all this an accident, or the new official policy?
Will there be any effort put into making sure ports don't depend on X
when that's reasonably feasible? Does anybody still care? What's the
official take on this?
Regards,
Liviu Daia
--
Dr. Liviu Daia http://www.imar.ro/~daia
