Re: FreeBSD ports community is broken [port building configuration notes]

2024-02-19 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
It seems that the ports developers have a tool that they would like everyone to use, while members of the wider community want choice. Context For my part I appreciated Hubbard's pkg_* tools. Later pkg* and the ports infrastructure underwent substantial change. After a few years pkg and the port

Re: lang/rust: resurrect PORT_LLVM as a non-default OPTION

2023-10-09 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
Hi Mark, yes it seems that some maintainers are letting dependencies bloat. A few weeks ago I had to rebuild samba4.13 (on FBSD 12.4) and it required rust to build(!). This was due to a documentation requirement to use py-poetry . Fortunately the py-poetry maintainer (I think) realised and adjus