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Re: shells/oh-my-posh



> No.  That's only for if a package will only ever during its entire lifetime
> ...
> It also means that the failures never show up in bulk builds so people are
> not made aware of them and be able to do something about it.

I understand this reasoning, in that case something like BROKEN_ON_PLATFORM ?

It's simply weird to have a package in pkgsrc proper without a hint that it
doesn't build on NetBSD. At least a commented note on the package Makefile.

It really doesn't matter what/how but, something. Right now, it's deceiving.

> On the other hand, failed builds waste resources. So if a package is
> very large (say Firefox-sized), it makes sense to mark it as
> unavailable on platforms where we know it won't work, so that the
> builder does not spend hours on this. I am not saying that this is the
> case for oh-my-posh though.

It fails almost straaight away, so in that sense is not a waste in this case.
But, again it should be somehow marked.



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