[MacPorts] #70556: "base" seemingly locking up for sometimes very long

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#70556: "base" seemingly locking up for sometimes very long
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  Reporter:  RJVB         |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  base         |    Version:
Resolution:               |   Keywords:
      Port:               |
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Comment (by neverpanic):

 Replying to [comment:20 RJVB]:
 > Replying to [comment:19 neverpanic]:
 > > Finally, a note on ticket hygiene: Please don't randomly Cc me to
 ticket you file because you believe I should do anything about your issue.
 I'm doing this in my free time, I have no obligation whatsoever to solve a
 problem you seem to have, nor do I provide any guarantees on MacPorts'
 performance on your particular machines.
 >
 > There was none of that. You were CC'ed because the commit log suggests
 that you're among the few core devs who are familiar with the registry
 design, who could explain what kind of DB tweaks could be tried safely>

 What makes you think I want to spend my time to explain what kind of DB
 tweaks could be tried safely? This seems to be an issue that doesn't
 affect our general user base, just a few corner cases on old machines. I
 do not want to spend my time remotely debugging or helping to debug those.
 If you haven't read it by now, my support policy is macOS
 (current-2;current), and it doesn't seem that that's the case here. And
 that's precisely why I don't want to be Cc'd.


 > what kind of customisation was performed on the registry database that
 "stock" sqlite3 doesn't want to modify it and how to work around that,
 etc.

 See `port notes macports.sqlext`.


 > I'm probably also one of the select very few who observe that the
 community "entraide" spirit has largely disappeared around here...

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 I try to be helpful to people in my support policy. You're typically not
 one of them.

 Those people outside of my support policy are welcome to open pull
 requests to solve their own issues. You've done that for some issues
 recently, and I fully intend to still review those. Outside of those, I
 largely ignore your emails, because they always seem to concern some
 corner case, are possibly related to a local modification you've made, or
 are on some non-standard system (Linux, old macOS, etc). It is absolutely
 not fun for me to look at your requests (just look at this one, 20 rather
 long comments with detail I really don't have the time to read and
 understand), so it's baffling to me why you seem to think you'd be
 entitled to "entraide" spirit here.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/70556#comment:21>
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