ports/packages (sysinstall and dependencies)

[Charles Howse]

On Jul 6, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Charles Howse <chowse at charter.net> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> 6.1-RELEASE-p2
>> I recently used sysinstall to install cups-1.1.23 via packages/ftp/
>> Main Site.
>> That adds ghostscript-gnu and xorg-libraries as dependencies.
>>
>> That's not what I wanted, I don't use a gui, so I selected
>> ghostscript-gnu-no-X11.
>> That didn't work, it installed ghostscript-gnu first and the no-X11
>> install failed.
>>
>> Now I'm stuck with xorg-libraries, which I don't need nor want.
>>
>> Is there a way to install ghostscript-gnu-no-X11 and fix the cups
>> dependencies?
>>
>> What would have been the proper way to use sysinstall/packages or
>> pkg_add and get no-X11 instead of regular ghostscript-gnu?
>
> I'm not sure I'm understanding your situation properly, but packages
> really work best if you are willing to live with whatever the default
> options are.  If you want to tune the installation for your  
> environment,
> the ports system will do so a lot easier than autofetched packages.

The situation is under control now.  What I was trying to do was get  
cups-1.1.23 as a package, since it is not available in the ports  
system.  Ports has 1.2.0.
I will live with xorg-libraries.  :)

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