how to make ports not install xorg or dependencies

[Matthew Seaman]

On 31/07/2018 11:41, tech-lists wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> context: freebsd-12 r336215 arm64
> 
> I don't want xorg or X11 or any of its components installed on this 
> system. I install ports in the traditional way, in other words cd port 
> && make config && make install. Any ports that in a generic config want 
> to install xorg libs, I want the no-x11 variant.
> 
> There used to be a way to enforce this no-xorg in make.conf but looking 
> at /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf I can find no reference to X Xorg 
> x11 or xorg. I presume there's a new method. If there is, can anyone 
> please tell me how?
> 
> thanks,

Try this in /etc/make.conf.  It doesn't forbid ports from bringing in 
X11 dependencies, but where doing that is optional, it turns it off:

OPTIONS_UNSET?= X11

All that does is pre-answer the configuration dialogue to say "turn off 
X11 support."  That's enough to avoid bringing in X in many cases, but 
it's no guarrantee unfortunately.  Some things just have a fixed 
dependency on X11.  Note too that various ports will now fail to 
compile, because they expect their dependencies somewhere down the tree 
to have the X11 support that this turns off.

Also, if you're an emacs user, then

DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= emacs=nox

would probably interest you.

	Cheers,

	Matthew