making a server entirely without X

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 13:54:49 +0100
tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:

> On 22/07/2016 13:43, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >> On Jul 22, 2016, at 8:38 AM, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to build a server entirely without X. What is the incantation
> >> for make.conf please? Or is it incanted elsewhere?
> > 
> > All X components are part of the ports/pkg system. If you don't want
> > them, don't install them. 
> 
> But some ports will build X (or parts of X) as dependencies. Or
> dependencies on dependencies. I want to prevent that. It used to be
> something like WITHOUT_X11=YES in /etc/make.conf but that was a long
> time ago and I think the syntax has changed. I'm looking for the new
> syntax.

	X11=NO should do the job AFAICT. Disclaimer - I haven't tried it,
just seen that bsd.sanity.make says X11 is the replacement for WITHOUT_X11.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>