On 2012/09/11 00:21, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
> 
> Then I guess Rowdy OpenBSD is right.  One can't install dbus without
> having the proper X libraries.

Much as I dislike agreeing with someone with a trollish email
address like that, yes.

> I see that some other distros have a kind of "no_x11 flavor" of dbus.
> Has it already been discussed?

Not that I recall..

> Would that be desirable in the OpenBSD ports system?

Unlikely, in general most ports with flavours like this are
applications, rather than ports providing libraries which other
ports depend on. It often causes a problem for bulk builds if a
library which other ports depend on has several conflicting
flavours.

> Else, I'd just disable D-Bus support for the no_x11 Emacs
> flavor.

That makes sense to me.

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