graphics/php*-gd requires X11 by default

Greg Kennedy kennedy.greg at gmail.com
Wed May 22 03:07:15 UTC 2019


Never mind!  I just saw that this was fixed in October for php73-gd.  Need
to update my PHP version.

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 8:54 PM Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm raising this again as the last time I tried to check with the port
> maintainer, he had not made the change, and wasn't available to do so.
>
> Can someone change the default config for graphics/php72-gd from X11=on to
> X11=off?
>
> It will save a large number of dependencies on X11, at the cost of not
> supporting this (very rarely used) image format.
>
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:14 PM Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I sent an email to the maintainer of these ports (tz at freebsd.org) a few
>> days ago, but didn't hear back - so I thought I'd raise the same question
>> to the mailing list instead.
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Hey there!  I was wondering something about the php-gd ports
>> (specifically 7.2 but earlier as well).  Looking at the config options
>> I see this:
>>
>>      X11=on: Enable XPM support
>>
>> With this option enabled php-gd can read XPixMap images, but in turn
>> this pulls in a host of additional X11 dependencies.  That's an awful
>> lot for (usually) headless servers, especially for an image format
>> that is (relatively) unused.  I don't mind the option being there but
>> because it is defaulted to "on", that means official FreeBSD packages
>> are built with this support and all the dependencies.  On my system I
>> have to manually build this one port just to turn off the option.
>>
>> Would it be possible to modify the defaults for this port so that
>> X11=off by default?  Or, why is the default to "on"?  (I have a guess,
>> that this respects WITHOUT_X11 in /etc/make.conf, but that's useless
>> for pre-built binary packages)
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>


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