<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This file has annoyed me on a number of occasions. I work with a full git checkout and tend to use utilities like ‘git grep’ a lot, and this file often gets a hit in those searches, and due to its size spams the results rendering it almost impossible to view any after that file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One option, if the port still needs to patch these rules, would be to store it compressed in git, and uncompress it on the fly during patching</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/6d838b9cdbde1c2704da396a95ab99222b8db2c6/www/libhttpseverywhere/Portfile#L50" class="">https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/6d838b9cdbde1c2704da396a95ab99222b8db2c6/www/libhttpseverywhere/Portfile#L50</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Oct 2020, at 2:52 am, Ken Cunningham <<a href="mailto:ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com" class="">ken.cunningham.webuse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The ports tree is getting bloaty as it is, but is is fairly egregious bloat…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ls -la</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">total 13680</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 22 Oct 18:46 .</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 128 23 Aug 15:39 ..</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6992700 23 Aug 15:39 default.rulesets</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 664 23 Aug 15:39 patch-fix-typelib-generation.diff</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 910 28 Jun 07:30 patch-vala-0.42.diff</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>