On 2024/12/05 18:39, izzy Meyer wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 12:29:41 +0000
> Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 2024/12/05 02:13, Li Carter wrote:
> > > Hello OpenBSD team,
> > > 
> > > Fastfetch is a maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented
> > > system information tool, which aims to replace neofetch completely.
> > > Fastfetch has been in FreeBSD ports for a while and I’d like to
> > > submit fastfetch to OpenBSD too.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Carter
> > >   
> > 
> > I see it builds against headers for various libraries in BUILD_DEPENDS
> > but dlopen()'s them at runtime and no run dependency information is
> > recorded in the package, therefore there's no way to get this
> > automatically updated if there are API changes in those libraries,
> > short of somebody monitoring about a dozen ports for changes and
> > manually bumping REVISION where needed. This doesn't seem a great
> > approach for ports.
> > 
> 
> Wouldn't you want to check depends for these via LIB_DEPENDS? Just an
> idea.

Yes but then it would pull in a bunch of rather heavy dependencies
at runtime which is probably a bit excessive

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