emacs +x11

[Ken Preslan]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:42:41AM -0800, Dan Ports wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 08:00:47PM -0600, Ken Preslan wrote:
> > I'll leave it up to you to decide what default would best serve your users,
> > but I'd like to lobby for leaving the simpler +x11 variant as an option.
> > The +gtk variant pulls in a lot of other ports I wouldn't need
> > otherwise.  The librsvg dependency also pulls in a lot of stuff I
> > wouldn't have thought necessary for emacs.  Simpler is better for me, and
> > I don't need/want more bells and whistles.  But that's just my vote.
> 
> I'm with you on that. It's just that at the moment the dependencies for
> +x11 aren't actually any smaller because it depends on librsvg which
> depends on gtk anyway, which kind of negates the point. 
> 
> I am not really clear on what emacs is using librsvg for. The
> dependency seems to have popped up in emacs23. It might be reasonable
> to disable it for non-gtk builds.

For what it's worth:  Last night, I reverted the pkgconfig Portfile to what
it was before the last change and reinstalled it.  I removed the librsvg
lines from the emacs Portfile and it installed fine without all the gtk
stuff.  It seems to work for me.

-- 
Ken Preslan <ken at preslan.org>