Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 15:51:39 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues Message-ID: <20161215155139.4a3d6033@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612150722250.36773@wonkity.com> References: <c5bc24cc-5293-252b-ddbc-1e94a17ca3a8@openmailbox.org> <20161208085926.GC2691@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612150722250.36773@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:40:46 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Matt Smith wrote: > > > On Dec 08 05:16, Daniil Berendeev wrote: > >> > >> Although portmaster is not releated to the FreeBSD project and is > >> an outside tool, there aren't any alternatives from the project > >> itself. So use it or die. Not a nice situation. > > > > People have been trying to get portmaster deprecated and removed > > from the handbook but have met with resistance. > > Well, yes. Because it works, has no dependencies, and there is no > equivalent replacement. Except maybe portupgrade, which has legacy > problems like poor default options. That's a very minor issue, and an absurd excuse to rule-out portupgrade.
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