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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:27:38 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
To:        Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARCH restriction for port of closed-source Linux software, looking for opinions
Message-ID:  <20220726142738.Horde.VNZcCSvnNr1IEqIYVAyOg1h@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <20220726102554.tvjus2e4zu5olzaw@nexus.home.palmen-it.de>

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Quoting Felix Palmen <felix@palmen-it.de> (from Tue, 26 Jul 2022=20=20
12:25:54=20+0200):

> Case in question is, once again, multimedia/makemkv.
>
> For a long time, the distfiles contained binaries of the closed-source
> part for amd64 and i386 only, so naturally, the port had
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D		amd64 i386
>
> Now, upstream started adding binaries for armv7 and aarch64. From these,
> Linuxulator is only available on aarch64. Therefore the variable now
> looks like this:
>
> ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=3D		aarch64 amd64 i386
>
> This is, of course, exactly the default that USES=3Dlinux would set
> anyways. Now I'm unsure whether I should just drop it and go with the
> default?
>
> Pro: It's actually the availability of Linuxulator that results in the
> narrowest restriction now.
>
> Con: The upstream software *is* restricted regarding ARCHs and maybe
> this should stay being reflected.
>
> What would you think is the better way to go?

There is work underway to port the linuxulator to other=20=20
architecture(s).=20I would suggest to keep the ONLY_FOR_ARCHS in the port.

Bye,
Alexander.

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