From: Neel chakraborty Subject: Re: [New]: sysutils/dust To: A Tammy Cc: UDENIX , ports@openbsd.org Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 04:26:54 +0530 On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 06:15:22PM GMT, A Tammy wrote: > >On 9/12/24 5:29 AM, UDENIX wrote: >> I understand that these replacements written in Rust for the base >> system utilities may have additional functionality that may be useful, >> but how far are we going to go with this? Do you intend to replace the >> entire OpenBSD userspace with these new tools written in Rust? If this >> is the case, and what you want is an imitation of UNIX written in >> Rust, you could use Redox OS [1], I think you will be happier with it >> than with OpenBSD. >> >> [1]: https://redox-os.org >> > >I wouldn't be so pessimistic, the younger generation comes up with >cooler tools and we get to learn about them ;) > > >I quite like dust, it's working nicely on my system. The graphical >output is nice too. Thanks for testing out my port. >The problem with this kind of port is that there's a lot of these disk >usage tools. Good news is that none of the tools I could find are in the >ports tree. I haven't tried any of the other disk usage tools, so I'm >not sure which one is "better" in that sense. If we are importing an >"enhanced" utility maybe better to import the one with the highest >number of knobs and twiddles to satisfy cravings? I agree. I have been using dust, and I am quite satisfied with it. However, if you come across something better and want it in the ports tree,please let me know. I will try my best to write a port for it and maintain it. >Ports wise, there are a lot of hidden files in the archive that need to >be removed, probably from compressing the files in macos. I would >suggest compressing through the command line using tar instead of the GUI. > >extra file: pkg/._DESCR >extra file: pkg/._MESSAGE >extra file: pkg/._PLIST >... >... > > >The Makefile and DESCR have a couple extra new lines at the end of the >port, it seems like your editor added them spuriously. Please clean >those up. I have attached a fixed version. Please test it if you can,and let me know if any issues arise. --- Best, Neel Chakraborty