graphics/php*-gd requires X11 by default

[Miroslav Lachman]

Greg Kennedy wrote on 2019/05/22 05:07:
> Never mind!  I just saw that this was fixed in October for php73-gd.  Need
> to update my PHP version.

I think all supported versions of PHP should have the same options 
enabled. And I support X11=off by default.


> 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)