On Thu, Oct 15, 2026 at 12:15:23PM +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote:
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!
Maybe a dedicated builder machine for huge things that can build at the
same cadence as the other builders. Like for example pkg-desktop.f.o.
People with desktops and laptops could point their pkg -r to that
instead of huge things blocking someone who might want i dunno, asterix
or other such ports usually used in a headless server environment.
Most desktop stuff is leaf stuff.
I mean i get why these ports are blacklisted if the builders are building
all possible ports in all possible combinations. Desktop is still niche.
Then there's the question of the energy needed to build these things.
Electricity is often the highest recurring cost for a server in a datacentre.
I'd imaging the electricity bill being very high for builders.
Maybe a way around that would be to on-prem where electric is cheaper,
the actual builders which'd upload to whatever then goes on to distribute
the packages at the datacentre. That would be greener than everyone
who needs these ports building them each individually.
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