On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
As I explained, "Ports that depend on XFree86 only do so in the event that you have not installed Apple X11." To take your example of pango, look at how the dependency is defined in the pango portfile:
I think Tabitha's question suggests another, however. Given that the center of gravity has clearly shifted over to X.org (and the fact that Jeremy Huddleston and Ben Byer have substantially evolved that code base over what shipped in Leopard, said collection of packages / git branch checkouts needing a bit of manual labor to currently install), why is XFree86 the fall back at all? Even if the intention is not to install it, it seems like there should still be a more sensible default now. - Jordan