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Re: mktool support for fetch



On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 01:15:45PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I'm still opposed; it feels like we are headed for a one-way trip into
> "if your platform doesn't support rust, you can't develop for pkgsrc".
> I know that's not the intent, but so many things have ended up that way,
> and I am not able to come up with any 'rust optional' things that haven't.
> 
> I realize I'm an outlier here, but just for the record since the
> question was re-asked.

Right. This starts out as "a few packages have 10000 distfiles, must
write solution" and ends at "portable parts of pkgsrc rot because none
of the main developers actually test them".


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