Re: git: 113cf218fe1d - main - net-p2p/mktorrent: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-03-31

On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 11:49:35AM +0100, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> On 2025-03-16 11:04, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 10:06:59PM +0000, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> > > commit 113cf218fe1d6cf57028bc5e91e3495adea58466
> > > 
> > >    net-p2p/mktorrent: Deprecate and set expiration date to 2025-03-31
> > >    Point users to net-p2p/mkbrr
> > 
> > Unfortunately, suggested alternative is written in Golang which makes it
> > much heavier to build (I almost run out of my limited disk space waiting
> > for it to download its myriad of go-mod files), and the binary is also
> > considerably larger: [...]
> > 
> > So while `net-p2p/mkbrr' is probably a nice project on its own and some
> > might even prefer it, I'd rather stay with good old mktorrent.
> 
> You also have net-p2p/intermodal ...
> written in Rust

Insta-no-no-no, it's even worse than Golang, and by far.

> I just went with the one that's mostly similar but I can update the
> Makefile.

No need for the churn, I might throw in some patches collected from
GitHub and/or GNU/Linux packages.

./danfe