Re: git: 2b0da956a025 - main - UPDATING: Add entry regarding glib20 update

Colin Percival wrote:
> I've been a FreeBSD committer for over 20 years and this is the first
> time I've heard that building ports on FreeBSD is not supported.
> 
> The release process builds code from ports because that's necessary for
> security and reproducibility; re@ doesn't control the pkg building systems.
> 
This isn't really a FreeBSD issue, of course we would like that builds 
on any environment Just Work. The bigger underlying issue is that 
third-party projects consider circular dependencies, hard dependency 
pinning et al as "facts of life". [0] There is only so much pressure we 
and other operating system package distributions can exert on projects, 
especially when you have say, entire language communities with their own 
packaging systems feeling that operating system packaging gets in their way.

[0] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject-introspection/-/issues/517

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Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.