> On 25. Jun 2024, at 10:21, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote:
>
> Pushing people to use packages sounds comical. Are we really talking about
> those packages that are not built at all, like Signal Desktop and many others?
The over-reliance on Poudriere has been going on for a decade but I’ve never
heard it spoken out that ports are less favourable than packages before. It’s
an interesting goal with the fun part being that ports are needed anyway in
this concept. So the underlying motivation is that some day ports building is
only encouraged via Poudriere and bugs it obscures are going to increase and
people wanting to install a modified port are going to have a hard time doing
it if at all. Or modifications will be further discouraged? 😉
Still one of the biggest issue is a shortage of committers. Not that there is a
shortage of submissions. But having less committers makes it easier to enforce
arbitrary rules by the inside circles.
I also agree that ports should be for ports building. The makefile framework is
very good. Why risk it by wedging packages over ports?
Cheers,
Franco