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
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