Setting X11BASE

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:35:07AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> >Also WITHOUT_X11 will only disable X support in ports for which it is
> >optional.  Many (probably most) ports that require X cannot work
> >without it, and if such a port is either specified explicitly or
> >pulled in as a dependency then you'll get what you asked for.
> 
> Yes, but most of the time the X11 libs are pulled in on a headless  
> server because of some dependency you don't need (e.g. php->gd->X11  
> for XPM which is not needed if you use PNG; or ghostscript->X11 on a  
> printserver where you don't intend to display the postscript before  
> printing). In this case WITHOUT_X11 works without a problem (at least  
> on those servers I use this).

It works perfectly well for its intended purpose.  As long as one is
not confused about what that purpose is ;-)

Kris