Friday, April 17, 2026

[Fix] Patch btop to report active CPU usage correctly, remove desktop runtime dependency

I like to use btop to monitor resource usage on servers, but it wasn't reporting per-core CPU usage correctly on OpenBSD. I reported and got the issue fixed upstream, but it might be a while until the next release, so I wanted to pull that diff into ports in the mean time: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/pull/1587 Also, I was puzzled why installing btop pulls in a lot of desktop related dependencies. They were just used to update the icon database on install, but I don't even have a GUI on most machines, and the binary itself is text only I believe. I wonder if we could live without that and make the number of dependencies for this package a lot leaner. Both patches are attached. Do either or both of these look OK? - Brent

Re: [NEW] net/nchat

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:00:40 +0200, mykyta@nazarenko.sbs wrote: > > Archive with a port that includes diff from kn@ attached. It will be more convenient to test :D > > Those who are interested, test and feedback. > Reads OK and seems works. I do not plan to use it, but I don't against to import it. BTW I had spoted a few static libraries: @static-lib lib/libduchat.a @static-lib lib/libncutil.a @static-lib lib/libtgchat.a Do we really need it as static lib? Maybe install it as .so or don't install at all? Anyway OK to import @kirill after release -- wbr, Kirill