From: "Lydia Sobot" <chilledfrogs@disroot.org>
Subject: Re: NEW: sysutils/starship
To: <ports@openbsd.org>
Cc: "Stuart Henderson" <stu@spacehopper.org>
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:19:36 +0100

>> I'm sure, but I'm more a little bit baffled coming from go-module(5) at
>> the whole rigmarole of adding the licence comments to crates.inc after
>> the fact (which seems to require parsing the existing crates.inc,
>> redirecting the output elsewhere, and then overwriting the file...?)
>> so I'd love a bit more insight into why it is so different since as much
>> as I dug at the docs, I couldn't find much of an explanation.
>
> because nobody implemented that for go.port.mk yet
>
> it would be useful to have otherwise it's not really possibly to check
> for incompatible mixes of licenses that would mean it's not ok to
> provide packages
Makes a lot of sense, thanks, however it would also probably make a bit
more sense to have the licence comment adding mechanism edit the
existing .inc file in-place, optionally, or be *somehow* a tiny bit more
integrated into the gen-{modules,crates} target