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. 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? 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. Best, Aisha
