Ports with X11 options

Miroslav Lachman 000.fbsd at quip.cz
Thu Apr 28 15:32:39 UTC 2016


Albert Shih wrote on 04/28/2016 16:49:
> Hi,
>
> Some ports got a option « WITH_X11 ». I would like to
> known what's that mean on a server ? Can I safely disable every WITH_X11 if
> those software is for a server.
>
> For example, php-gd need graphics/cairo. If I disable X11 can I got some
> issue with php-gd ?

If you don't want to read / write images in some X11 format, you don't 
need this option enabled.
I have this settings in make.conf for all our servers for many years

OPTIONS_UNSET= X11 GUI CUPS DOCS EXAMPLES NLS HAL

No problems so far.

Miroslav Lachman


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