Re: Combining NOT_FOR_* and BROKEN_ON_*

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2025-04-03 at 17:59 BST, David Holland wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 10:29:52AM +0100, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
> > "What problem are you actually trying to solve?"
> >
> > My opinion is that BROKEN* is a solution looking for a problem, and I've
> > yet to hear a reason why having it makes pkgsrc better.
>
> There are a few things that it has been successfully used for in the
> past (and in the present):
>
> - packages that build but do not run (e.g. xview on 64-bit platforms)
> - packages where the build goes into an infinite loop
> - packages where the build takes an unreasonably long time or an
>  unreasonable I/O volume before failing

At least for the latter two NOT_FOR_BULK_PLATFORM is more appropriate.

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