Re: removing error from USE_X11 without xorg

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:16:19AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> coypu%sdf.org@localhost writes:
> 
> > Python doesn't use X11. Some python programs might.
> > For python GUI packages, python needs to know where to look for X11
> > libraries.
> >
> > I don't care if python GUI packages fail to work on a non-X11 setup. But
> > now I have lots of other packages failing until I adjust settings.
> >
> > Setup with no xorg and no interest in ever installing it.
> 
> So generally pkgsrc declares dependencies and requires them.  You're
> saying that you don't want something installed, which in the case of X
> client-side libs, is quite unusual, admirable in an odd way :-)
> But, a vast amount of things assume some degree of X presence, so you
> are a bit tilting at windmills (but we all are, choosing NetBSD).
> 
> I don't think it's right to drop pkgsrc insisting on X being there when
> packages say they need it, to make an edge case work, where it builds
> anyway and fails if you do something x-ish at runtime.
> 
> What if you do
> 
> PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS+=		-x11
> 
> Does that let python build?  And if not, is there some minor bug?
> 
> Why isn't that a good solution for you, who are trying to build things
> from pkgsrc on a system that does not have X?
> 
> 


No it doesn't because I need a bajillion patches. It'd be nice to make
defaults work.