Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:43:38 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> Cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap Message-ID: <11C38184-E6D4-4F04-9A38-8EFEA10402B0@grem.de> In-Reply-To: <67fabbf4-0fc3-49da-8354-2e20486d4751@FreeBSD.org> References: <67fabbf4-0fc3-49da-8354-2e20486d4751@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 7. Aug 2020, at 15:26, Steve Wills <swills@freebsd.org> wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFHi, > ..... > I believe that's updated daily and the tars from cgit are generated at lea= st that frequently, if not more. >=20 The real question is: Will we design things in a way that we expect ports tr= ee users to always install git and its dependencies on their system or not (= long term)? For developers it=E2=80=99s a no-brainer (obviously yes), but ports tree use= rs aren=E2=80=99t developers.=20 Ideally, from a user perspective, =E2=80=9Cportsnap fetch/extract/update=E2=80= =9D would just work as it did before (maybe running =E2=80=9Cportsnap reset/= migrate=E2=80=9D once after the change). Cheers, Michael
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