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

I do believe they're talking about outsourcing the build process and distributing amongst resources. Like a hive or a chain where distributed systems would be used to build pieces (of the software) and collaborate back (which does have potential to be a great resource.) But, the Poudriere system does not support this currently. Perhaps in the future?


On May 27, 2026 4:33:58 AM UTC, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> > The ports tree is a dependency tree. To target the fastest way for
>> > upgrades would require to rebuild if a dependency changes
>> > and to optimise the longest path, compile-time-wise.
>
>> I don't think I articulated what I meant thoroughly.
>> By distributed I mean something like folding@home where a user
>> would get a slice of work and process/upload it.
>
>Again, it's a dependency tree. You can not parallelize more 
>than a certain number, because nodes would have to wait for other nodes
>to finish before they can work. So one has to reduce
>the dependencies and shorten the longest path.
>
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Regards,
Janky Jay, III