mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72)

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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.

So "make missing" is the shovel.  The question stands.

One reason for POLA is to minimize the *need* for such defensive
practices.