ports/137373: x11/libX11: make dependance on x11/libxcb

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Max Brazhnikov <makc at issp.ac.ru> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:06:37 -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 00:30 -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>>
>> ....
>>
>> >> Is it acceptable a patch allowing to diable XCB without a menu? The
>> >> default behavior is kept but users can put "WITHOUT_XCB=true" in
>> >> /etc/make.conf, ensuring that all ports are built the same way.
>> >
>> > If it is defined as a KNOB and all of the ports override the option if
>> > the KNOB is set, then yes I'm ok with it.  I just don't want an option,
>> > since it makes foot shooting easier.
>> >
>> > robert.
>>
>> Ok, I will submit a followup with an new patch.
>
> As KDE (and several multimedia ports) maintainer I object to having xcb knob
> in x11 ports. Turning it off will break plist and/or build of these ports,
> they does require libx11 compiled with xcb support.

There is already a xcb knob in x11 ports. I'm just attempt to add of
another one. The knob will keep building libX11 with xcb by default.
Changing this will be a user decision.

What "packages" are you talking about? The only KDE package that
depends on libxcb is multimedia/kaffeine.