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

Hi!

May 25, 2026 16:17:43 void <[email protected]>:

> 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.
>
www/ungoogled-chromium is also blacklisted and takes even longer to build (1 day 9 hours with 4 threads).

>> 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.
> --
Typical desktop self-built update takes 10 days on 4 real cores machine. That is the reality today :/