[MacPorts] #32516: Remove macfuse port

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#32516: Remove macfuse port
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 Reporter:  anatol.pomozov@…          |       Owner:  dports@…           
     Type:  defect                    |      Status:  assigned           
 Priority:  Normal                    |   Milestone:                     
Component:  ports                     |     Version:  2.0.3              
 Keywords:                            |        Port:  macfuse            
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Changes (by dports@…):

  * owner:  macports-tickets@… => dports@…
  * status:  new => assigned


Comment:

 I'm not sure we want to do this. As you point out, it would be an ABI
 compatibility-breaking change. That's hardly a showstopper, but I'd rather
 not do it in this case without a good reason. In particular, people may
 have filesystems built by hand (i.e. not with MacPorts) and linked against
 libfuse, and forcing them to needlessly recompile would be undesirable.

 I don't see a very compelling reason to do this as we've already changed
 the default dependencies for fuse filesystems to fuse4x. So we're
 gradually migrating; new installations are almost certainly using fuse4x,
 especially on Lion. That means that anyone who has macfuse installed
 either explicitly requested it or has had it installed (and presumably
 working) for a while. In either case, it's not clear to me that they'd
 necessarily benefit from being migrated to fuse4x. (The obvious answer to
 this is 64-bit kernel support, but that's unlikely to be an issue for
 existing installations as the macfuse port refuses to build on a 64-bit
 kernel system.)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32516#comment:4>
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