Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 05:46:13 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Synth status and failure to install some packages
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What is the current status of ports-mgmt/synth? It seems deprecated by what I see on this emailing list, but I see occasional updates when I update ports tree. One big nuisance is failure to install some build-dependency packages that might be not needed to run the "main" packages but might needed to build other things, especially if I am cross-compiling something for Linux. I was stung by lacking such a dependency, gperf, and then I found it in the package repository created by synth, whereupon I installed it with "pkg install". Gentoo Portage allows "with-bdeps=y" which allows the user to avoid this problem by installing the build dependencies. Tom
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