Re: why does devel/electron41 show as blacklisted on pkg.f.o

void <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 15:17:20 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <ahRZ8F2LAzGOCosx@int21h>
On Mon, May 25, 2026 at 03:24:25PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:

>All the electron ports command very huge resources to build.
>Like > 24h on a beefy machine.

yeah I've found that too.

Is there a list available of what falls into this category?
I mean, others which aren't electron based which also
take huge resources to build.

>Therefore only one will currently build and we hope that
>all the ports that depend on some version of electron try to converge
>on the one that is being built by the ports cluster.

electron41 here is being built as dependency of signal-desktop.
The electron port wasn't manually configured to do this on
my poudriere instance.
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