On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:16 PM Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqu...@neosmart.net> wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm probably not alone in considering git to be a core development tool, > perhaps just a notch or two below the C compiler. `git` and `sudo` are the two > packages I first install (after `pkg` itself) on any machine, and in many > cases that suffices to get a basic development environment going. > > However, the git package currently brings in a host of unwanted dependencies, > and I *believe* they can be done without. > > This is the complete dependency graph for the git package [0] (generated with > the newly-minted pkg-graph [1]). It pulls in perl5 and python27, both sizeable > packages and both not required to use git. > > While git can be compiled without some of the additional dependencies such as > expat or pcre, this results in a "crippled" git lacking in some core features, > and requires special build-time definitions like NO_EXPAT or NO_PCRE passed to > the git Makefile. The other dependencies like curl, pcre, and gettext are also > relatively small and typically part of even the most minimal system, but perl5 > and python27 are full-blown runtimes for interpreted languages that have > fallen out of favor and have been successfully stripped from FreeBSD core (and > even many Linux distributions). > > I'm sure these packages are not just there to have a good time and they serve > some purpose and enable a subset of the git functionality, but my question > here today is whether that functionality is worth its weight in dependencies, > and whether the ports team is open to seeing the git package stripped of these > dependencies. > > (Obviously the option of adding a "git-lite" package à la "vim-lite" also > exists, but I think it's fair to say that would be an ugly and unnecessary > compromise.) > > [0]: https://goo.gl/hozu1b > [1]: https://github.com/neosmart/pkg-graph
Agreed. I'd personally much rather see small default packages and -kitchensink slaves, than massive default packages and -lite slaves. It's always struck me as odd that our git package comes with CVS and Perforce support. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
