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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2025 08:11:37 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: f4fd2aa07cde - main - libutil++: Move to clibs
Message-ID:  <aJbYiSgFEC2WnkXp@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <aJbW8rzh1uj8wwzQ@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Aug 09, 2025 at 06:04:50AM +0100, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Konstantin Belousov:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 03:39:39PM +0000, Lexi Winter wrote:
> > >     libutil++: Move to clibs
> 
> > clibs package must not be extended arbitrarily.
> > The clibs package is intended to provide the minimal safe atomic update for
> > C runtime.  Anything else is out of its scope.
> > 
> > Really it should contain just rtld/libc/libthr and required fs structures.
> 
> clibs currently includes libc++, libedit and ncurses, so while that may
> have been the original purpose, the current state of the package doesn't
> seem to reflect that.

So something more to fix for somebody.

> 
> libutil++ had to go somewhere to fix the build, but if you want to move
> it to utilities, i wouldn't object to that.

I definitely would not touch pkgbase.  Since you moved the library into
clibs, you should move it into some other place.



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