Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:55:33 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> To: Jose Quinteiro <freebsd@quinteiro.org>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly Message-ID: <b76c3ccc-f4e6-2875-90b7-5aa680af6c38@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <0f15aeeb-54f0-e902-9eaa-0c22a17fbe97@quinteiro.org> References: <ZRGiDj-esOAc9K_Z@lordcow.org> <1e05be67-cb15-964e-c78b-e74e714257a9@FreeBSD.org> <11aede54-89d0-9b46-28f8-1931571b8917@m5p.com> <0f15aeeb-54f0-e902-9eaa-0c22a17fbe97@quinteiro.org>
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On 26/09/23 17:26, Jose Quinteiro wrote: > On 9/25/23 13:21, George Mitchell wrote: >> On 9/25/23 11:38, Guido Falsi wrote: >>> [...] >>> There is a more general aspect to this. In the rest of the unix world >>> software is now almost universally build using CI systems and >>> buildboxes, people use binary packages almost all the time in linux. >>> Developers don't care to keep low overhead in their builds and with >>> dependency. The ports tree cannot mitigate this external pressure. >>> >>> Anyway building from ports on live machines has always been bad >>> practice for a lot of reasons. >>> [...] >> And yet it mostly works for some of us. I'd be overjoyed to sign up >> with the program (using packages only) if packages not using CUPS >> (that would run with unassisted lpr) were available, let's say as a >> flavor. But until then ... -- George >> > The sudden appearance of a Rust requirement broke at least some CI systems: > https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771#issuecomment-774997087 > For the record, the comment you're referencing (and so the breakage) was happening two years ago. We are being quite late at the party... -- Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
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