On 23-02-02 10:08:54, Omar Polo wrote: > On 2023/02/02 20:00:44 +1100, Joel Sing <j...@sing.id.au> wrote: > > On 23-02-02 09:35:32, Omar Polo wrote: > > > These are a few ports that have no reverse deps (outside themselves) > > > and that don't provide any binary, only the go code, and thus quite > > > useless. nowadays a go port would just use the modules if depends on > > > these. > > > > > > - devel/go-sys > > > - security/go-crypto > > > - security/go-ed25519 > > > - security/go-siphash > > > > > > textproc/go-text could go as well but since it provides bin/colcmp > > > maybe someone uses it? (not that it couldn't be replaced with a > > > proper -updated- port...) > > > > Thanks - I believe the list is actually larger, from when I last looked > > at this: > > I already took care of some of them. These were just removed: > > > - devel/go-goptlib > > - net/go-net > > and this updated last week to use modules > > > - devel/go-tools > > (gopls was moved to its own port.)
Ah, excellent. Thanks. > so only these remains :) > > I'm happy to remove textproc/go-text too, if anyone is using colcmp it > would be easy to re-add as standalone port. Please go ahead and remove textproc/go-text as well. > > - devel/go-sys > > - security/go-crypto > > - security/go-ed25519 > > - security/go-siphash > > - textproc/go-text > > > > All of these are seriously dated and if anyone uses binaries from these > > they're likely using 'go install'. And if someone wants it packaged then > > it needs to be updated (and sufficiently maintained), in which case it > > will use modules and hence not the current deps. > > > > I can't comment on the exact process, but I'm very much ok with removing > > all of these, if you could add them to the list.
