Re: git: 934e8c6541b2 - main - x11-toolkits/qt5-gui: minimal plugin independent of option X11

Adriaan de Groot <adridg@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> The branch main has been updated by adridg:
>
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=934e8c6541b2c9233e2df5901d466ce8fc23e668
>
> commit 934e8c6541b2c9233e2df5901d466ce8fc23e668
> Author:     Adriaan de Groot <adridg@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2022-12-06 14:08:19 +0000
> Commit:     Adriaan de Groot <adridg@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-12-06 18:12:10 +0000
>
>     x11-toolkits/qt5-gui: minimal plugin independent of option X11
>     
>     The "minimal" plugin is always needed (or just **one** of
>     the plugins, but this will do) to allow QtGui applications
>     to function. Turning off X11 turned them all off (I supposed
>     "if you're not using X11, you must install the Wayland bits
>     instead" would work, but that's hard to express in ports).
>     
>     So remove the plist-sub from the minimal plugin -- there is
>     enough X11 pulled in regardless of the X11 option, that
>     the plugin builds (and links against X11 libraries, so
>     the option is a lie).
>     
>     The linked PR is not for this port, but demonstrates a problem:
>     if X11 is turned off, there is no platform plugins at all,
>     and then there is no way to run Qt-Gui applications (even with
>     minimal / no graphics). For "command-line" Qt-Gui applications
>     like qhelpgenerator, that is a problem.
>     
>     PR:             267949

What's so special about "minimal" compared to "offscreen", "vnc", "bsdfb"?