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Date:      Thu, 31 May 2018 22:55:54 -0500
From:      Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mqudsi@neosmart.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Dropping pxz port?
Message-ID:  <CACcTrKds4r-HEJtC20WSkxFZjFDaVqVYm8SK0%2BSjk2409ANWjw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello all,

The pxz port is badly created (installing the package pulls in the
entire gcc6 suite and gcc-ecj, just to deploy the binary), and ends up
needing over 500mib of space for a very simple utility.

I was about to fix it when I found out that upstream pxz is both
abandoned and broken ([0], and in particular, [1]). Perhaps it should
be dropped?

Thank you,

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi
NeoSmart Technologies

[0]: https://github.com/jnovy/pxz/issues
[1]: https://github.com/jnovy/pxz/issues/29



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