On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:19:14AM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: <snip> > I used to avoid installing the X sets and I found that even on e.g. a web > server without X11 running. I would end up installing them in the end as > certain ports would require them.
Often there's a no_x11 FLAVOR, but avoiding that extra work in ports maintenance is part of the motivation for deprecating non-X installations. IIRC, ports maintainers have for years made it clear that providing and maintaining no_x11 FLAVORs isn't a priority. > Struggling to remember why I wanted to do it, to be honest. Because until relatively recently X was installed sgid root. But that was fixed for 6.5: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/xenocara/xserver/Makefile.bsd-wrapper?rev=1.67&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
