Almost 3 hours to build Git and one of its critical dependencies from ports on an ARM64 VPS with #OpenBSD (because the package dependencies are still broken in 7.5-beta).

The dependencies that could be installed from packages pulled the entire XML parser stack and two text-mode Web browsers I don't need there (lynx and w3m).

This is an example of FUBAR at its finest.

I think the practice to distribute source code in .tar.gz (or, even better, .shar.gz) first must return, and for pretty good reasons.

People must not depend on a bloated VCS that takes 3 hours to build.

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I knew there was a reason I was holding off upgrading -current. Thanks! :P

OpenBSD folks promise to fix everything by May when 7.5 is fully released, but the real issue is that Git is never gonna be fixed anymore.

Never thought of it that way, hmm.