On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> > Changes by: sthen@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/07/27 05:55:36
> >
> > Modified files:
> > sysutils/bat : Makefile
> >
> > Log message:
> > set sysutils/bat to ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=${LP64_ARCHS}, one of the 147
> > dependencies (sys-info) has a 32 vs 64 bit issue when checking
> > the number of CPUs online
>
> Wait, a cat with 147 dependencies? Looks like it's a rabbit after all!
> At least there can be no doubt that it inhabits a rabbit hole, doesn't it?
>
> Besides, isn't a program that stops working once your machine has
> more than four billion CPUs utterly useless in the 31st century?
>
> If it didn't constantly trip up otherwise busy porters, this port
> would be a really good laugh.
>
> *Looking at the calendar*
> No, it's unlikely to be the Easter bunny.
> We are not that close to Apil 1.
And to think that Rob Pike once wrote a paper "cat -v considered harmful"
since it added unnecessary functionality to cat, whose only job is
to catenate files...
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