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

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