ports/137373: x11/libX11: make dependance on x11/libxcb

[Carlos A. M. dos Santos]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Robert Noland <rnoland at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 02:10 +0000, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>> The following reply was made to PR ports/137373; it has been noted by GNATS.
>>
>> From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania at gmail.com>
>> To: bug-followup at freebsd.org
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: ports/137373: x11/libX11: make dependance on x11/libxcb
>> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:07:47 -0200
>>
>>  This PR has been collecting dust for three moths. Is there any chance
>>  that the proposed patch gets committed?
>
> There is a pretty fair risk of breaking several other ports with this.
> Other ports that also expect xcb to be present would need to be modified
> to either have xcb disabled or fail if libX11 does not have the needed
> functionality.

That's exactly why I made it optional, default on, keeping the default behavior.

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