XFree86

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Monday 05 June 2006 11:34, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> > On Monday 05 June 2006 11:08, Russell Shaw wrote:
> >>If i use XFree86, will any of the ports package dependencies complain
> >> about not having Xorg?
> >
> > Packages will complain, ports shouldnt though. You need to set
> > X_WINDOW_SYSTEM variable in make.conf (see
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#XFREE86-VERSI
> >ON).
>
> Hi,
> I read that part before.
>
> I'm unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but have been reading about it for a few
> hours.
>
> When you say packages will complain, will they stop when i use
>
>    X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4
>
> and most things that rely on X will be happy?

Unfortunately no. Binary packages record dependencies on other packages and as 
X.org is default X11 (for contemporary versions of FreeBSD) dependencies on 
xorg-* packages are recorded for official packages. make.conf is not 
consulted when installing packages at all.
If you install stuff from ports though, your setting of X_WINDOW_SYSTEM will 
cause your own packages to depend on XFree86-* packages so in that case 
things that rely on X will be happy as long as you build them from ports 
yourself.

Dejan