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Re: DISPLAY, xauth and buildlink3.mk (x11/gnome-applets invest applet)



On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 05:53:08PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > > The following pach takes DISPLAY out of the build (or makes it null),
 > > and with that gnome-applets builds correctly.  It seems generally good
 > > to reduce interactins with the user's environment, but I'd rather "unset
 > > DISPLAY" than bash it to empty.  OK to commit, or better idea?
 > 
 > What about the packages that explicitly need an xserver to build?

They suck? :-)

We should probably do something explicit with them in any case.

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David A. Holland
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