> I used to run all my OpenBSD servers with no X11. > > Now, to build nmap, you seem to need python. There are no FLAVORS and > so no obvious way to prevent it from requiring python. > > And to build python, you need X11R6 installed. There are no FLAVORS > as there used to be, to compile without tkinter to avoid requiring > X11R6. > > Is it possible to install these without installing X11R6? Maybe I > just don't understand the way ports work well enough. > > And, why the change?
Would you prefer to live in a world with 500 flavors? Perhaps. Would you prefer if the ports developers spent all their time building and testing flavors, instead of bringing new code into the ports tree? That is the choice. So sometimes changes like that come direct from the upstream. Supporting flavors (which are mostly restrictions on what gets used) always requires more testing. Sometimes there is no choice but to accept the upstream.
