Thursday, December 05, 2024

Re: Fastfetch: new package

On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:29:41 +0000
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org> wrote:

> On 2024/12/05 02:13, Li Carter wrote:
> > Hello OpenBSD team,
> >
> > Fastfetch is a maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented
> > system information tool, which aims to replace neofetch completely.
> > Fastfetch has been in FreeBSD ports for a while and I'd like to
> > submit fastfetch to OpenBSD too.
> >
> > https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Carter
> >
>
> I see it builds against headers for various libraries in BUILD_DEPENDS
> but dlopen()'s them at runtime and no run dependency information is
> recorded in the package, therefore there's no way to get this
> automatically updated if there are API changes in those libraries,
> short of somebody monitoring about a dozen ports for changes and
> manually bumping REVISION where needed. This doesn't seem a great
> approach for ports.
>

Wouldn't you want to check depends for these via LIB_DEPENDS? Just an
idea.

--
iz (they/them)

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> there are too many uninteresting things
> that go unnoticed.

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