* Antti Harri [2005-12-31]: > >We looked into the problem, there's no easy way out. It is now > >consensus among developers, that there's no problem installing xbase > >on systems that want gd. > > Hello Nikolay, can you explain this to me (and others) why it is like > that? Why should users install such a massive software to their > computers if they need just this small GD graphics library?
Because this small library needs libfreetype and libfontconfig which on OpenBSD are part of xbase. GD might be able to work w/o these libs, but AFAIK this will result in a worse font display. Feel free to add a no_x11 FLAVOR and make sure everything else still works as it does now. > At least rrdtool requires X11 also because of the same reason. Why > isn't fontconfig and freetype2 ports an option (I have such already > available btw) Because those libs are in xbase, we neither have nor want ports for base stuff (with very few exceptions due to developers testing something). Nikolay
