marklinimon:portsgripes

Given infinite time and resources, these are the things that MarkLinimon would like to see fixed.

  • ld: error: undefined symbol: sbrk
  • Overriding the string ARCH, which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework
  • Overriding the string LLVM_DEFAULT, which ought to be considered sacred to the ports framework
  • Ports that stomp on the Makevar values of CC_*, CXX_*, LD_*, and so on
  • heavy dependencies that creep in via TEST_DEPENDS (especially painful for riscv64 right now)
  • expensive docs dependencies even for trivial ports
  • rust has now crept into every desktop environment via spidermonkey78
  • x11 libraries
  • marklinimon/portsgripes.txt
  • Last modified: 2021/01/22 09:16
  • by MarkLinimon