Re: pkg/52561

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52561; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: solaris-pkg-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
	pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/52561
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:10:43 +0000

 * On 2018-11-25 at 23:45 GMT, David Holland wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/52561; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/52561
 > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:42:35 +0000
 > 
 >  On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:00:02AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
 >   > [...]
 >  
 >  Am I correct in thinking the state of this PR is:
 >  
 >   - there is no problem as long as one turns on cwrappers;
 >   - with old wrappers, untransform.sed is zorching shell scripts and we
 >     aren't sure why;
 >   - nobody really feels inclined to fix the old wrappers.
 
 I'd agree.  SunOS is one of the platforms where legacy wrappers hurt the
 most in terms of performance, so I certainly have no desire to fix them.
 Again, I'd much rather spent the time fixing any packages that are
 currently incompatible with cwrappers and its stricter requirements.
 
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