<div dir='auto'>OpenBSD has precompiled binary packages and<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">> The ports tree is meant for advanced users. Everyone is encouraged to use the pre-compiled binary packages.</div><div dir="auto">> https://www.openbsd.org/faq/ports/ports.html</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So there is still a distinction between build-time and runtime.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2026/01/18 23:57 Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>:<br type="attribution" /><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 9:45 AM Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
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> Hi KDE Community,
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> I'm currently working on mapping the dependencies for the OpenBSD
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> packages properly. I've started analysing the .kde-ci.yml.
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> In OpenBSD, we have RUN_-, BUILD_- and LIB_DEPENDS. RUN_DEPENDS must
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> be installed alongside the package. BUILD_DEPENDS must be present
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> at build time but not linked against lib/bin and finally LIB_DEPENDS
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> which link against bin/lib.
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> Let's take a look at frameworkintegration-6.22.0 for example:
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> We have the following LIB_DEPENDS:
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> LIB_DEPENDS = devel/kf6/attica>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/kcolorscheme>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/kconfig>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/kcoreaddons>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/ki18n>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/kiconthemes>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/knewstuff>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/knotifications>=${MODKF6_VERSION} \
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> devel/kf6/kwidgetsaddons>=${MODKF6_VERSION}
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> That's easy, because we scan all bin/libs to determined all used
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> libs correctly. This This is recorded in WANTLIB. This means that
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> it is immediately apparent if something is missing:
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> WANTLIB += ${COMPILER_LIBCXX} GL KF6Attica KF6ColorScheme KF6ConfigCore
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> WANTLIB += KF6CoreAddons KF6I18n KF6IconThemes KF6NewStuffCore
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> WANTLIB += KF6Notifications KF6WidgetsAddons Qt6Core Qt6DBus Qt6Gui
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> WANTLIB += Qt6Network Qt6Widgets c m
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> In other words, we can correctly determine shared library dependencies, but
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> now it gets exciting, but .kde-ci.yml says even more dependencies, namely:
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> KDE_DEPENDS = devel/kf6/kconfigwidgets \
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> devel/kf6/kguiaddons \
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> devel/kf6/kio \
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> devel/kf6/kitemviews \
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> devel/kf6/oxygen-icons \
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> devel/kf6/kpackage
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> I determined KDE_DEPENDS based on kde-ci.yml. Now I'm wondering
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> how to deal with it. Are these just build dependencies, or also
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> runtime dependencies, or both? What's the best way to determine
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> this? Can I even do that? What would be the best strategy for
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> distributions?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't ports imply that these things are
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compiled on the user's computer? Doesn't that mean the distinction of
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build-time and run-time is not particularly strong?
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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!
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