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From: Gareth de Vaux <ports@lordcow.org>
To: Guido Falsi <madpilot@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: dns/bind916 builds rust unexpectedly
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On Mon 2023-09-25 (17:38), Guido Falsi wrote:
> This one, which calls in py-cryptography which requires rust.

Thanks

> 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.

Understood. Though the situation you point out has been around for decades
and this is the first time I've encountered such a chaotic result.