Hi, gwes wrote on Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 03:40:48PM -0400: > On 10/26/17 07:24, Rupert Gallagher wrote:
>> If you have a server with limited resources and without X11, >> you cannot install the present cups package. I can't comment on CUPS and avahi in particular, but yes, in general, X libraries are required to work with packages(7). So even on a stunted server, always install xbase??.tgz, or expect trouble and deal with it without asking for help or for changes to the system. Disks that can't hold an additional 63 MB practically no longer exist. > When this works you should probably work with the ports > group to make this version available. They may not accept > it because compiling another version of cups on their > build systems would take too long. Bulk build times are a consideration, but even if build times are moderate, additional flavours are often rejected because simplicity and reliability are paramount. Each additional flavour invites additional failure modes, requires additional testing, and complicates maintenance of dependent ports. > In any case posting a succinct list of the changes you had to make > might be interesting to some people. In general, home-brewing a version of a library package with some dependency removed is a very bad idea. Even if you do it, don't advertise the details to the world, because it is likely to trap the unwary, in particular those who understand even less than you what they are doing, into following you and screwing their systems up. Say you build custom, non-official flavour L-noD of the library package L that, in the official ports tree, always depends on the package D. Months later, you decide to install the application package A that depends on L. If A also depends on D, the port maintainer probably did *not* register the dependency on D in LIB_DEPENDS, BUILD_DEPENDS, or RUN_DEPENDS because that's already implied by the dependency on L. So with your non-official L-noD installed, any attempt to install A is likely to fail in surprising ways, no matter whether you try installing it from packages or whether you try to build it yourself in your own copy of the ports tree. Yours, Ingo
