Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/fonts/dejavu-ttf

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 7/23/21 4:24 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> With X11_TYPE, there are basically two valid setups:
>
>   X11_TYPE=native and x sets installed (or equivalent on other systems).
>   This does not imply the server set is installed and it does not imply
>   anything is cofigured.
>
>   X11_TYPE=modular, and X11-world things will be provided from pkgsrc,
>   with either native X11 installed and ignored or not installed

I would like to see the equivalent of an X11_TYPE=none, since X11 is not 
"similar to many other big things" as you see it. X11 is (until, maybe, 
Wayland) the only graphics platform we have, and as such it plays a 
special role as enabler for GTK, QT and friends.
> You seem to live in a world 

Maybe tone it down a bit? My daily workplace driver is a NetBSD X11 
workstation, and has been for almost 25 years...

> where you leave X11_TYPE=native and want to
> have absolutely nothing from X11 on your system.  The former is a
> misonfiguration and I don't think we should torque pkgsrc around to
> accomodate it.

I've tried both. I found myself playing whack-a-mole where at every 
turn, a package attempted to sneak in X11 dependencies despite setting 
PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=-x11.

X11_TYPE=native, especially after the change that started the thread, 
gives a clear error, so I can look at my options. Setting 
X11_TYPE=modular, when I clearly do not want X11 bits on a server 
installation, feels like a misconfiguration to me.

Nothing religious on my end, this is a purely pragmatic decision.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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