Just wanted to install vim - had to spend entire day building X11

[RW]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:42:04 +0000
RW <rwmaillists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:00:39 -0500
> Chris Brennan <xaero at xaerolimit.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
> > <keramida at freebsd.org>wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm sorry that you had to install software that you don't really
> > > need and I can help you clean up by saving your installed ports as
> > > 'binary packages' and re-installing just the bits that you
> > > _really_ want to have around.  Other than that, I don't know if
> > > there's any way to change the status quo of the vim ports to be
> > > able to satisfy automatically both types of user needs.
> > >
> > >
> > My not a 'make config' target that asks weather we want
> > vim/gvim/xvim (if X isn't installed?)
> 
> There's already a slave port


FWIW I just had a look and for me there is practically no
difference. The additional direct dependencies are  commonplace
desktop dependency ports, and the vim binary  shrinks from 1.7MB to
1.4MB,  just  298kB.