Le jeu. 15 oct. 26 à 11:16:52 +0200, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]>
 écrivait :

> > Hi,

Hello,

> > im not a fan of electron either and am not surprised that a version of
> > it is not supported but i have to agree with Miroslav that it makes it a
> > bit of a pain to use freebsd as a desktop
> 
> Yes, signal-desktop builds fine and the build of Signal itself is fast. But
> the electron takes huge amount of time. If you heave a powerful machine, you
> can just update ports tree and build signal-desktop.
> It's sad that instead of building Electron once for thousands of users,
> thousands of users have to build it themselves. It's a needless waste of
> electricity.

There is a PR about this problem, opened 3 years ago:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=270565

And we have the same problem with chromium and its cousins (iridium,
etc.).

The problem seems to be financial in nature: the compilation farm needs
more beefy computers to build these packages!
-- 
Th. Thomas.

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