ports/173339: graphics/ImageMagick Port tries to build the universe

Josh Berkus josh at agliodbs.com
Sun Nov 4 20:37:44 UTC 2012


On 11/4/12 12:00 AM, Jason E. Hale wrote:
> On Saturday, November 03, 2012 22:00:01 Josh Berkus wrote:
>>  Right, but my point is that the default dependancy is brain-dead.  I'm
>>  trying to improve Ports so that it "does the right thing" out of the
>>  box, instead of the wrong thing.
> 
> Most ports build with X11 support on by default.  The "right thing" isn't 
> right for everyone, but that is why there are KNOBS and OPTIONS.  Saying how 
> much it sucks or how brain-dead it is isn't improving anything.  The 
> infastructure is already there to build without X11.  If you don't want X11 
> support all you have to do is define WITHOUT_X11=yes and OPTIONS_UNSET=X11 in 
> /etc/make.conf.  It's that simple.

Hmmm, I actually had WITHOUT_X11=yes in the configuration file, but it
built with X11 anyway.  I didn't have OPTIONS_UNSET=X11.

Is that the expected behavior?

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