[31434] trunk/dports/x11/gtk2/Portfile

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 07-11-30 à 14:06, Eric Hall a écrit :

> On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 04:22:12AM -0500, Randall Wood wrote:
>> The assumption that a user wants the entire X11 stack installed for
>> him is not deterministically true. I will not and can not force a
>> user to install X11 if they do not want to.
>>
>
> 	I agree, we can't (always) know that a user wants X11 intalled.
> As Marcus pointed out, there are users who know what they want,
> and they tend to be the folks who know what to do to get it (or can
> figure it out).  There are the other users (which to me includes
> the automated builds) that just want it to work(tm).
> 	Perhaps the best compromise would be to have a message pop
> up indicating that the gtk2 port is capable of being installed
> with +x11 or +quartz (in wording that people understand) and will
> default to +x11 in $SECONDS and what to do to stop it and go back
> to install with +quartz if that's what they want.  If port can also
> tell if it is going to go build all of X11 (vs it being installed
> already, as is the default for Leopard), that'd be great.
> 	I think this would let people who know and/or are interested
> get what they want (+quartz) and also allow automated and "I don't
> know/care" installs to succeed.  What do you think about this?
> Improvements or other ideas?

This gtk2 message should indicate clearly that most ports will fail  
at runtime with +quartz

yves