Re: mktool support for fetch

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 12:18:24PM +0000, nia wrote:
> 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"

We still need a solution for that, independent of the mktool patch.

> and ends at "portable parts of pkgsrc rot because none
> of the main developers actually test them".

Noted. We don't want that.

But isn't the alternative that whoever those developers are just carry
around a patch in their checkouts? How is that an improvement?
 Thomas