On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:28:38 +0300 Anton Saietskii <[email protected]> wrote:
> For those who gets frustrated by removal of flexibility and > unconditional dependencies introduction (e.g., > a5ad594928348358d169ce8703788a0976d40f5d, > f57f5533927184a5913d160c3d7606b13d83b47b) into subj, it would be nice > if you are willing to review > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296856 and share > your thoughts there if any. I, personally, strictly oppose the > installation of AMD"gpu"-related stuff, especially when machine > physically has only Intel and/or NVIDIA GPU installed. Not to mention > reducing customizability is just a bad thing. In the past I also fought various OPTIONS combinations trying to trim dependencies. Still, one need to understand that for the port maintainers this will always be a trade off between elasticity and maintainability. I fixed my conflicts between my personal choices and OPTIONS by creating a ports` OVERLAY. Now stuff, where I care about granulation and push it even further, lives outside of official tree. And I am the master of this playground ;-) -- Piotr Smyrak
