Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:38:10 +0200 (CEST) From: freebsd@oldach.net (Helge Oldach) To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We need to do something about build times Message-ID: <202310280938.39S9cAQS062722@nuc.oldach.net> In-Reply-To: <c35b5dea9d6a810c1e051d620534fa67@mail.infomaniak.com> from Daniel Engberg at "28 Oct 2023 10:48:04"
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Daniel Engberg wrote on Sat, 28 Oct 2023 10:48:04 +0200 (CEST): > there's little we can do about upstream projects overall > since the ports tree is after all intended for packaging not > maintaining. Excuse me? The tree is fundamentally designed to allow and support maintaing and recompiling from source. What else would be the point of asking users for options by means of dialog? Actually that is the one major benefit over just installing binary packages from somewhere: One can tailor port features as needed. In fact I often do - be it only turning off NLS habitually. I would mandate maintaing in hybrid mode: Compiling the personal selection of ports with personally selected options from source, while installing pre-built build (not run!) dependencies temporarily from some repository: I don't care about rust, however I do care if compiling clamav on my machine takes several hours, while spending the vast majority of time building rust. Kind regards Helge
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