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From:
Landry Breuil <landry@openbsd.org>
Subject:
Re: [revision] graphics/vtk: Trim down port
To:
ports@openbsd.org
Cc:
Johannes Thyssen Tishman <jtt@openbsd.org>, jca@openbsd.org, tb@openbsd.org
Date:
Fri, 15 Aug 2025 11:01:02 +0200

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Le Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 08:38:19AM +0000, Johannes Thyssen Tishman a écrit :
> Please find below a revision for graphics/vtk.
> 
> VTK is currently quite large and the port takes a long time to compile.
> This makes it particularly costly for bulk builds, especially since the
> port has only one consumer.
> 
> To cut down on build times, the diff below disables building the Python
> wrappings (not needed by consumer), as well as tests. Generally, I'd
> leave tests enabled, but considering that I'm unable to run them (too
> resource intensive), there is no point in building them. Without tests,
> there is also no need to download the additional data either, saving
> space (~1Gb) and a few seconds while fetching tarballs.

nice savings ! while tests are very useful when initially porting a
monster and making sure it's in working condition, they're not strictly
required, and in that case disabling them helps... so looks ok; thanks :)