Re: Moving expat and a few other libraries to the base system

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:45:59AM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> this discussion was started because pkgsrc handles the case of a
> system without X11 installed but needing these libraries was poor.

Strictly speaking, the problem is only with binary packages.
If you build from source, you can use X11_TYPE=modular and it will build
them as needed.

Joerg