Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 12:16:49 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: portmaster, portupgrade, etc Message-ID: <20171004161649.GA51883@mail.michaelwlucas.com>
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Hi, I'm doing tech edits on the new edition of "Absolute FreeBSD," and stumbled into what's apparently a delicate topic. Some of my reviewers are happy I included portmaster in the book. Some reviewers beg me not to include it. Unfortunately, people will be reading af3e and considering it definitive for the next several years. So I have to get a feel for where things are going. :-/ I've read a couple threads on portmaster's current problems/growing pains and its looming difficulty with forthcoming flavors. I've been a happy portmaster user for many years now. All things being equal, if its future is still being debated I'm inclined to keep it in the book. Poudriere really needs its own small book. Yes, you can do simple poudriere installs, but once you start covering it properly the docs quickly expand. My notes alone are longer than my af3e chapter limits. (I'll probably publish "FreeBSD Packaging Misery^WMastery" in 2018). Truly, I'm not looking to start a flame war here. I only want a bit of guidance on The Future... ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas https://mwl.io/ nonfiction: https://www.michaelwlucas.com/ fiction: https://www.michaelwarrenlucas.com/
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