make.conf no x option

[Randy Bush]

>>>> i think this whole thing is worth a few days to settle in our heads.
>>>> essentially, if we believe that freebsd is used extensively in
>>>> headless server deployments, we should make that easy and smooth.
>>> But even a headless server can run X clients with the display being on
>>> some other (presumably non-headless) machine. That is on of the
>>> beauties of the X Windowing System.
>> 
>> [ thanks, but i am overly-familiar with the beauties and the some of the
>> warts of x. ]
>> 
>> someone installing a server may or may not want the x client version of
>> a package as opposed to readline or curses.  but, imiho, it would be
>> good to make such decisions centralized, somewhat strong, and pretty
>> clear.
>> 
>>> The only part that would make no sense to install on a headless
>>> machine is the X server itself
>> 
>> and the support for it and the toys it occasionally seems to drag in.
>> 
>> i really do not want the x client versions of emacs, cvsup, ...
>> actually, i can not think of any ports i run on headless machines that i
>> want spawning windows on my glass.  ymmv, of course.
>> 
>> i think that i would like to be able to say headless install and have to
>> ack any port which wants to drag in x.
> 
> First of all, try figuring out which ports got you into the X11 mess. On
> my server I got:
> 
> % pkg_info -R libX11-1.2.1,1
> Information for libX11-1.2.1,1:

my point was specifically that, if we believe that freebsd is used by a
major server population, that having to know/do this kind of cruft is
ill-advised.

randy