On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > Steven Kreuzer wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote: > >> Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install of mtools brings > >> up a configuration menu in which the WITHOUT_X11 option can be set? I > >> do not remember seeing any such thing, but it has probably been 6 > >> months since I last tried it. > > > > when you do a make install for the mtools port, it does not prompt you > > if you would like to build the port without X11. This can be enabled by > > passing > > -DWITHOUT_X11 to make, or adding WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf to apply > > it to all ports that you build on that system > > And I should have to dig into each potential port to investigate whether > such options might exist before finding out the hard way that my system > is going to be loaded up with things I neither need nor want? Not a very > user friendly approach.
There is a "missing" target which will show you what will be installed if you were to build the port. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
