On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:07:25AM +0200, Leonid Bobrov wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 08:02:19AM +0300, Kirill Bychkov wrote: > > Hi! > > What is the reason to split 15 MiB package and complicate the port? > > Some games using such a split to save space on mirrors, but they > > have more than 100 MiB of data. > > > > Hi! > > This was suggested by Landry Breuil to run the server without having > the client installed. > > Also I see an opportunity here because you don't have to have X.org > installed to run the server. > > Alternatively we can split it in flavors like FreeBSD did that, this > will help people which prefer to compile packages themselves, but this > is more complicated, but it'll allow people to compile server only.
We actually dropped the distinction USE_X11 a few years ago. These days, we consider you install a more of less full system including X libraries for ports. I'm also not too fond of the extra complexity for such a small package.
