Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Rob LA LAU
Hi, On 15/11/2021 10:21, Guido Falsi wrote: You look too worried by the "functionality added" part. Yes, I am worried. Of course I am. When I first asked my question the day before yesterday, the first responses were in the line of "port maintainers can do whatever they want", accompanied by

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Guido Falsi
On 16/11/21 11:34, Rob LA LAU wrote: Hi, On 15/11/2021 10:21, Guido Falsi wrote: You look too worried by the "functionality added" part. Yes, I am worried. Of course I am. Now I feel compelled to reply to all this rant of yours because you are replying to me, but I really have little more

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > On 15/11/2021 10:21, Guido Falsi wrote: > > You look too worried by the "functionality added" part. > > Yes, I am worried. Of course I am. > When I first asked my question the day before yesterday, the first > responses were in the line of "port maintainers can do whatever they > want", acc

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Guido Falsi
On 16/11/21 11:56, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! On 15/11/2021 10:21, Guido Falsi wrote: You look too worried by the "functionality added" part. Yes, I am worried. Of course I am. When I first asked my question the day before yesterday, the first responses were in the line of "port maintainers can

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Gregory Byshenk
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:34:45AM +0100, Rob LA LAU wrote: > Yes, I am worried. Of course I am. > When I first asked my question the day before yesterday, the first > responses were in the line of "port maintainers can do whatever they > want", accompanied by emoticons with sunglasses. > So th

Re: automake config failure for autoconf test failure (poudriere based build activity)

2021-11-16 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:57:23 -0800 Mark Millard wrote: > poudriere output: > > [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Saved devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 wrkdir to: > /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs/13_0R-CA72-default/default/automake-1.16.4.tbz > [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Finished devel/automake | au

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Jose Quinteiro
On 11/16/21 2:34 AM, Rob LA LAU wrote: > ...Even OpenBSD, if you want to keep it close to home, dictates > that all patches, work-arounds and dependencies must be documented, and > that all changes must be sent upstream to try and have them included in > the original work... Openbsd packages come

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Rob LA LAU
On 16/11/2021 17:59, Jose Quinteiro wrote: Openbsd packages come with the following caveat: > [...] Every operating system comes with this caveat; OpenBSD just says it out loud. No BSD, nor any Linux distro, has the resources to go through the source code of all ported software, to make su

Re: automake config failure for autoconf test failure (poudriere based build activity)

2021-11-16 Thread Mark Millard via freebsd-ports
On 2021-Nov-16, at 08:42, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:57:23 -0800 Mark Millard > wrote: >> poudriere output: >> >> [00:24:23] [09] [00:01:20] Saved devel/automake | automake-1.16.4 wrkdir to: >> /usr/local/poudriere/data/wrkdirs/13_0R-CA72-default/default/automake-1.16.4.t

Re: Adding functionality to a port

2021-11-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 16 Nov 2021, Gregory Byshenk wrote: I am just a user, but my understanding is that FreeBSD developers take the OS very seriously, but do not take themselves too seriously. Best comment I've seen in this increasingly-sillier thread. -- Dave

Re: Regarding port(s) you maintain in FreeBSD ports collection

2021-11-16 Thread Daniel Engberg
On 2021-11-16 07:14, Mikhail T. wrote: On 13.11.21 15:51, Daniel Engberg wrote: I agree that old doesn't necessarily mean it's useless Noted! however we do need to prune the ports from time to time Why? Why do we need to "prune the ports from time to time"? I'm aware of one principle,

Bringing back lang/python27 with few modules?

2021-11-16 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, I am still a bit concerned with the total removal of python 2.7 year ago and its support, I think this was a somewhat swift decision that may need to be re-considered. I understand the urge for portmgr to move base over to a supported version, but also that caused few important packages to be