On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:31:05 +0100 "Tristan Yves M.B." <moisthercule...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been using the macppc version of OpenBSD 7.6 on a 1.25ghz powerbook > G4... On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:35:32 +0000 Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > You are using an architecture which is not used by many people, > it is quite limited in available memory, and it is rare for various > projects to test their software on it. A lot of ports can't be built > there. Additionally it is not supported by go or rust, which by > themselves knock out big chunks of the ports tree. macppc can't build xfce because it didn't have rust: the dependency chain was lang/rust, devel/spidermonkey*, x11/gnome/gjs, devel/glade, x11/xfce4/libxfce4ui. A change in OpenBSD-current after 7.6 broke the chain by disabling gjs in glade, so there is a chance that macppc might have xfce in the future. I won't know until I do a powerpc bulk build. (My last bulk had some trouble around devel/glib2 and didn't reach glade. A bulk takes about 4 weeks, because macppc hardware is old and slow. I have not yet started my next bulk.) On my PowerBook G4, I run xcompmgr + xterm + cwm from base, so I have a desktop without packages. My ~/.xsession for xenodm says in part, xcompmgr & xterm -geometry 80x25+0+0 & xterm -geometry 80x25-2+0 & exec cwm I pkg_add emacs--gtk3 for text editing and sylpheed for mail. This PowerBook is too slow for web browsing. I use an external keyboard and mouse, connected via a USB hub, to help preserve this laptop, which is more than 20 years old. --gkoehler
