[FreeBSD-Announce] BSD-Licensed Combinatorics library/utility

[Chris Rees]

On 5 January 2020 18:57:02 GMT, Devin Teske <dteske at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 5, 2020, at 09:26, Chris Rees <crees at bayofrum.net> wrote:
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>> Hi Devin,
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>> There are many examples where utilities have moved from ports to
>base- portsnap being one I can think of.
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>> I don't think that ports is really a dead zone for software- pkg
>install -y cmb takes around seven seconds, and I would struggle to
>imagine that anyone uses a system with no ports installed.
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>> The argument would obviously change if you wanted to use it in
>bsdinstall or similar- is that why you're frustrated here?
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>1. Build option survey for testing different combinations of options
>when building base
>2. Building ports built with different combinations of options when
>available
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>Both of those situations may preclude having any packages installed.

We use devel/ccache with poudriere all the time- it's not really a big problem.

Having it in ports has the massive advantages that it becomes available for all versions of FreeBSD, as well as having immediate bugfixes and the most up to date version available at all times.

Granted, it does appear pretty mature... but given that no one needs to approve a port being added (and there are many people who would gladly make one), it would definitely be the best first step to get wider exposure more quickly.

Even while the decisions on importing are ongoing, you could stick it in a port today.

"Ports are just as much a part of the OS as base".

Chris

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