On 9/25/23 11:38, Guido Falsi wrote:
[...]
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.
Anyway building from ports on live machines has always been bad practice
for a lot of reasons.
[...]
And yet it mostly works for some of us. I'd be overjoyed to sign up
with the program (using packages only) if packages not using CUPS
(that would run with unassisted lpr) were available, let's say as a
flavor. But until then ... -- George
