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13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 0 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-06-11 · latest 2026-01-20
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…sup repository yet, but I'll make one when I wake up again.. :)" Submitted by: jkh Aug 21, 1994 [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/7ca702f09f29... Interesting commit starting Ports 2.0. Three version of bash, four versions…
comment by topspin · 2026-01-20 · in Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs -
…just not applied by default? Nixpkgs seems to allow you to build the pkg with the patch [2]. [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/security/... [2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d85ef06512a3afbd6f9082...
comment by frantathefranta · 2025-12-16 · in High Performance SSH/SCP -
…on freebsd is installing security/ca_root_nss which contains a very scary message? https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/ec981e26cd3128...
comment by pierluc-works · 2025-03-05 · in Tailscale is pretty useful -
…https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/dotnet8.0 [3]: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dotnet8 [4]: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/main/lang/dotn... [5]: https://github.com/dotnet/source-build
comment by MarkSweep · 2024-08-27 · in Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team -
…experience than with alternatives). Why almost everyone (from my experience) is doing this? [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/9d74858de3b5e4...
comment by takeda · 2023-12-29 · in Ask HN: Good examples of fault-tolerant Erlang code? -
…to know the context of what they’re referring to when asking a one-worded question? Its clear from https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/189#discussion... that the author is asking why is this line needed, something a PR author…
comment by rodlette · 2023-11-03 · in An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Committers, and Community -
Probably useful to link https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/189/files for some context. Looks like author overdramatizes the situation a bit.
comment by marwis · 2023-11-03 · in An Open Letter to the FreeBSD Foundation, Core Team, Committers, and Community -
They have not been stable https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/a43ec88422ee...
comment by anecdotal1 · 2023-01-30 · in Git archive checksums may change -
…recipes (with some hacks due to llvm's cmake code being stupid sometimes): compiler-rt (from llvm): https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/devel/was... libc (from what you linked): https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/m…
comment by floatboth · 2021-12-06 · in WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95 -
ISPC is not stuck on LLVM 7. Only fails on 12 currently, works on 11 and earlier: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/85cccf4f15c42d... But hopefully that will be fixed soon.
comment by floatboth · 2021-08-12 · in Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM -
…OPTIONS_UNSET+=EXAMPLES OPTIONS_UNSET+=CUPS OPTIONS_UNSET+=OPENGL Here's more how to use them: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/main/Mk/bsd.op... The options are also stored in the config as you mentioned and if a new option…
comment by takeda · 2021-06-07 · in FreeBSD from a NetBSD developer’s perspective -
…of modern GCC. Suggested alternative title: FreeBSD has Removed GCC from Build Infrastructure. [0] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/Mk/bsd....
comment by bcaa7f3a8bbc · 2020-03-03 · in FreeBSD has removed GCC from its base system -
Chromium is terrible for the BSDs, though - it requires something like 300 patches to build: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/tree/master/www/chr... Mozilla, unlike Google, is not hostile to the idea of receiving patches from BSDs.
comment by nbsd4life · 2018-06-11 · in Firefox does not have a well-designed privsep model