Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:29:23 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r407270 - head/ports-mgmt/portmaster Message-ID: <FFDB388E-185C-4A8C-A90A-C61F813B2856@adamw.org> In-Reply-To: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201601261123.u0QBNcvL091258@repo.freebsd.org>
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> On 26 Jan, 2016, at 4:23, John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > Author: marino > Date: Tue Jan 26 11:23:38 2016 > New Revision: 407270 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/407270 >=20 > Log: > ports-mgmt/portmaster: DEPRECATE without expiration date >=20 > Moreover, there are better options available. All FreeBSD platforms > support ports-mgmt/poudriere (although some many struggle under the = load) > and the most common amd64 and i386 platform users have the additional > option of ports-mgmt/synth which is user-friendly, lightweight, and = aimed > at users of portmaster, portupgrade, and even poudriere. John this doesn't feel like a decision you should be making = unilaterally. I agree wholeheartedly that the lack of contribution to = portmaster is troubling, but it still works exactly as intended for = anybody that doesn't use pkg to install binary packages, and is the ONLY = option for people who maintain single servers, instead of server farms, = and have no need to build ports just so they can install them later. synth is written in ada. I'm sorry but any port-management port that = requires over 20 dependencies before it even works is not lightweight. I = assume that dragonflybsd comes with gcc (and ada support maybe), which = is great and I'm super happy for you, but you should not be scaring off = new users (who will install what the handbook tells them to install) = just to promote a new program you wrote. portmaster is in the handbook all over the place. Rewrite all those = sections to demonstrate how to use synth instead and then I'll support = you deprecating portmaster. In the meantime, please revert this. # Adam --=20 Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org http://www.adamw.org
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