On 26/09/23 17:26, Jose Quinteiro wrote:
On 9/25/23 13:21, George Mitchell wrote:
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
The sudden appearance of a Rust requirement broke at least some CI systems:
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/5771#issuecomment-774997087
For the record, the comment you're referencing (and so the breakage) was
happening two years ago.
We are being quite late at the party...
--
Guido Falsi <madpi...@freebsd.org>
