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

May 29, 2026 21:02:56 Tomoaki AOKI <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, 27 May 2026 18:01:51 +0200
> Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> Again: The critical path for a rebuild of the ports tree is
>> the longest compile-time path in the dependency tree.
>>
>> If you throw more CPUs at the problem, the longest path will
>> not become shorter. Only if you use CPUs with higher GHz rate.
>>
>> --
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>
> What I read from this thread is a bit different.
>
> Aren't others talking about "Can't be a build for single huge port
> to be built distributed?" rather thand "Can't we build more ports
> at once?"?
>
Hi!
Well, I can confirm that electron can use 4 real cores, the build than takes around 23 hours! Has anybody experimented with larger number of cores? 32, for example?