Re: Proposal, again: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:52:35PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Le 26/09/2019 à 16:47, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 04:40:33PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Actually this is not clear. We have linux binaries in pkgsrc.
> > > 
> > > ... And? We have 22000 packages in pkgsrc.
> > 
> > How is it relevant ? I install less than 200. But there is suse_base in them
> 
> The real question, is how the fact that there are linux binaries in
> pkgsrc relevant. Yes, there are packages. And? Most of them are

it's relevant because they are in the binary repositories, so anyone
can install them with pkg_add or pkgin. And they don't even have to know
these are linux binaries.

> completely outdated and haven't been updated in the last 10 years.

They were usefull 10 years ago; it doen't make then useless now.
For example I use then to run eagle, or microchip compilers, on
a regular basis.

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