From nobody Sun Nov 14 15:42:51 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A641184CAA4 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@ohreally.nl) Received: from rambler.ohreally.nl (rambler.ohreally.nl [51.15.8.63]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4Hsc5k0DHDz4cg4; Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:42:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@ohreally.nl) Received: from authenticated-user by rambler.ohreally.nl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BEE2B1D77A91; Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:42:32 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ohreally.nl; s=dkim; t=1636904552; r=y; bh=EjO5JxAiW0i8Yn4Elafhf2qwQ5KbYGNnAi+ddUkz7VA=; h=Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=ugDRzFacFThWcX6Nt9HhDl97d5j/u50RrN0XF0PykeFpSXUImOfkXQRljncHpKaVf p1n+YDNYJnVSTTRv4eFNXlbW6ZPw7LTDYPiLSaM9pKBR6YHh922zMo4kEWglxERjMy Qp9M7gcQAzoqrTxoR4nUJ0M5VkqwYhQdkmO02hRo= Message-ID: <480b44f5-0674-e645-8413-a1a368cfc393@ohreally.nl> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 16:42:51 +0100 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Adding functionality to a port Content-Language: en-US To: Kurt Jaeger Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4ca51765-b556-3f12-5809-5aadbf6dccca@ohreally.nl> From: Rob LA LAU In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.104.0 at rambler.ohreally.nl X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4Hsc5k0DHDz4cg4 X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Hi Kurt, On 14/11/2021 16:34, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > You can ask the maintainer if he wants to join upstream, but > if there's no interest, there's no need to pressure one into upstream 8-) Don't worry: I don't want to pressure anyone into doing anything. :) But I would like to know how much functionality a port maintainer can add to a package before it is considered too much. At some point the port will no longer represent the upstream package, and I'd really like to know where this limit is. Rob -- https://www.librobert.net/ https://www.ohreally.nl/category/nerd-stuff/