Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 15:17:44 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 214679] "Recommendation" for portmaster and portupgrade needs to be removed Message-ID: <bug-214679-9-4DJRTdCgkN@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-214679-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-214679-9@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D214679 --- Comment #3 from Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> --- I'm not portmgr anymore, so I would share what was discussed long ago. While it is true portmaster and portupgrade are still in ports, none of them are still in active maintenance. We discussed a lot between portmgr about removing portmaster/portupgrade from the handbook. Beside some drawbacks of those tools which yes could be documented as "pro/cons" for true, no active maintenance is also a problem regarding some evolution that are planned in the ports tree for very long: subpackages and alternative/flavours. which will break the design around which portupgrade = and portmaster are built: a port is unique via its origin. portmaster took years to catch up on pkg_install -> pkg transition (portupg= rade was a bit faster to catch up due to active maintenance from bdrewery on portupgrade at the time). I would vote on removing documentation of both tools in the handbook --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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