Re: official pkg repo with WITHOUT_X11=true

On 29 May 2014, at 02:23, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> As for skipping unneeded ports the best I can do is '-a' or "Build it all".
> If a port is only needed for WITH_X11 then an IGNORE should be added to it
> when WITHOUT_X11 is set to prevent wasting time on it.

We can probably do a bit better by looking at the complete dependency graph and removing any ports that have unconditional dependencies on X.  For a headless server, there's no reason to build any of the kde-* or gnome-* ports or, indeed, X itself.  I suspect that we could easily trim 2/3 of the build time by omitting ports that have a GUI, GUI toolkits, and so on.  

Longer term, we may be able to share the build time a bit.  Ports which don't have a WITHOUT_X11 flag and don't unconditionally depend on X11 can potentially be pre-seeded from the normal package build (if we can identify them).  That only leaves the ports that actually have build-time conditional X support to build in the no-Xorg run.

David