On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 09:24:31AM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > The number of ports to build a server-of-all-work is not large.
Now the problem is getting people to agree on exactly what that subset is. If there is interest, I can provide the examples and code I use whenever I start up a new machine here at the house, e.g. powerpc64, sparc64, etc. And we'll see how close to agreement people can get. (Yes, I'm quite skeptical.) > Unnecessarily complex and a source of uncontrolled errors, yes, One person's "unnecessary" is another person's "necessary". > Specialist workstations such as sound/video editing? Maybe. You'll immediately go from a few hundred ports to a few thousand ports. No one has ever done the work on "most minimal set of dependencies" in the ports tree -- and that's because it's hard work. Add to that the fact that the technology has never supported partial checkouts and it complicates things. tl;dr: I do have long-time experience building subsets of the ports tree and in my experience it's harder than people think, once you get beyond a few dozen targets. mcl _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
