I could lash out for a nice rant but I'm not going to do that. As building rust is an *expensive* dependency and therefore is _not_ a preferred dependency for people looking to keep things small and minimalisic, please make graphics/librsvg2 a port option choice as there might be not few people that have no problems with it.
The openbox port doesn't look like a right place to control which implementation of librsvg2 is used, as it's just using GNOME=librsvg2, which, apparently, as of recently started depend on librsvg2-rust: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18878#change-mdWSt6VPApKC I think if we want to give a user control which implementation to use, it's better to do somewhere in Mk/Uses/gnome.mk instead of modifying individual ports using USE_GNOME=librsvg2.
Moin moin The proper way would be to switch it via bsd.default_version.mk LIBRSVG_DEFAULT?= rust and then do something like .if empty(ARCH:Naarch64:Narmv6:Narmv7:Namd64:Ni386:Npowerpc64:Npowerpc64le) && ${LIBRSVG_DEFAULT:Mrust} in gnome.mk mfg Tobias
*** Bug 251017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 219560 [details] v1 Moin moin Could you give this one a go? Add DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=librsvg2=legacy to your make.conf to test. mfg Tobias
(In reply to p5B2E9A8F from comment #0) > please make graphics/librsvg2 a port option choice Technically it is optional in Openbox, albeit enabled by default. The problem is more serious for ports where librsvg2 is not an optional dependency, and thus cannot be easily turned off. With this patch and DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=librsvg2=legacy, I can finally build Openbox again with default options, thank you Tobias. Prior to this change it was impossible because apparently this Lenovo L470 laptop of mine with 8GB RAM is not potent enough. > I could lash out for a nice rant but I'm not going to do that. I'll just say that may it be an example of why one should *not* try to rewrite popular open-source C library (which can be compiled even on, I don't know, TI-85?) in a "better" tongue that requires 100500 GB of RAM just to build itself, not to mention it being self-hosted and thus requiring bootstrap on every architecture. This could be tolerable for leaf ports, but really horrible for maintaining reusable open-source components serving as dependencies for vast variety of software.
Moin moin @antoine bsd.defaults_versions.mk ask's for an exp-run of the change. mfg Tobias
exp-run looks fine
A commit references this bug: Author: tcberner Date: Fri Nov 20 19:02:43 UTC 2020 New revision: 555776 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/555776 Log: Add new default-version variant for librsvg2 New default version for librsvg2. Current versions of graphics/librsvg2 are using parts written in rust. For architectures that do not have support for rust, and for people who prefer not to have, or are not able to compile rust software due to hardware limitations, the version can be chosen via this new flag. The default on almost all architectures is rust. If you prefer no to use rust, add the following to your make.conf: DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=librsvg2=legacy This makes the change committed in r554733 a bit more flexible for people who are opposed to oxidation. PR: 251014 Exp-run by: antoine Changes: head/CHANGES head/Mk/Uses/gnome.mk head/Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk
Thanks for the exp-run. Committed.