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From:
izzy Meyer <izder456@disroot.org>
Subject:
Re: Fastfetch: new package
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:39:10 -0600

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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.

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

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