Headless server: why does samba need X?

[serverhamster]

I'm trying to figure out why samba installed some X libraries on my server. Samba is installed from ports with the following options:

leto# make showconfig
===> The following configuration options are available for samba35-3.5.6_2:
     LDAP=on "With LDAP support"
     ADS=off "With Active Directory support"
     CUPS=on "With CUPS printing support"
     WINBIND=on "With WinBIND support"
     SWAT=off "With SWAT WebGUI"
     ACL_SUPPORT=off "With ACL support"
     AIO_SUPPORT=off "With Asyncronous IO support"
     FAM_SUPPORT=off "With File Alteration Monitor"
     SYSLOG=off "With Syslog support"
     QUOTAS=off "With Disk quota support"
     UTMP=off "With UTMP accounting support"
     PAM_SMBPASS=off "With PAM authentication vs passdb backends"
     DNSUPDATE=off "With dynamic DNS update(require ADS)"
     AVAHI=on "With Bonjour service discovery support"
     EXP_MODULES=off "With experimental modules"
     POPT=on "With system-wide POPT library"
     IPV6=on "With IPv6 support"
     MAX_DEBUG=off "With maximum debugging"
     SMBTORTURE=off "With smbtorture"
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings

In order to prevent this from happening again, I have put WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf.

A couple of questions:

• Will WITHOUT_X11 really prevent this from happening?
• How can I find out what the dependencies of samba35 are?
• How can I change those dependencies and find out what packages are no longer needed because of that change?

 

[mk]

$ make run-depends-list
or
$ make build-depends-list

to give you an idea what is need for building and/or running given app.
Check ports() manual.
I don't know why samba wants X11 though.

 

[SirDice]

I'm trying to figure out why samba installed some X libraries on my server.

It's because of CUPS.

In order to prevent this from happening again, I have put WITHOUT_X11=yes in /etc/make.conf.

A couple of questions:

• Will WITHOUT_X11 really prevent this from happening?

Yes.

[*]How can I find out what the dependencies of samba35 are?

# make run-depends-list
# make build-depends-list
# make all-depends-list

• How can I change those dependencies and find out what packages are no longer needed because of that change?

The above commands and # make config

 

[serverhamster]

Thank you all. Samba needs X because I enabled AVAHI, which installed avahi-app. I find it curious why avahi would need X, but I don't really need it and recompiling without it erased the dependency.