Re: remove a few go libraries leaf ports

On 2023/02/02 20:00:44 +1100, Joel Sing <joel@sing.id.au> wrote:
> On 23-02-02 09:35:32, Omar Polo wrote:
> > These are a few ports that have no reverse deps (outside themselves)
> > and that don't provide any binary, only the go code, and thus quite
> > useless. nowadays a go port would just use the modules if depends on
> > these.
> >
> > - devel/go-sys
> > - security/go-crypto
> > - security/go-ed25519
> > - security/go-siphash
> >
> > textproc/go-text could go as well but since it provides bin/colcmp
> > maybe someone uses it? (not that it couldn't be replaced with a
> > proper -updated- port...)
>
> Thanks - I believe the list is actually larger, from when I last looked
> at this:

I already took care of some of them. These were just removed:

> - devel/go-goptlib
> - net/go-net

and this updated last week to use modules

> - devel/go-tools

(gopls was moved to its own port.)

so only these remains :)

I'm happy to remove textproc/go-text too, if anyone is using colcmp it
would be easy to re-add as standalone port.

> - devel/go-sys
> - security/go-crypto
> - security/go-ed25519
> - security/go-siphash
> - textproc/go-text
>
> All of these are seriously dated and if anyone uses binaries from these
> they're likely using 'go install'. And if someone wants it packaged then
> it needs to be updated (and sufficiently maintained), in which case it
> will use modules and hence not the current deps.
>
> I can't comment on the exact process, but I'm very much ok with removing
> all of these, if you could add them to the list.