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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:35:31 +0100
From:      John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st>
To:        Alphons van Werven <freebsd@skysmurf.nl>, Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Mathias Picker <mathiasp@mathiaspicker.net>
Subject:   Re: Removing documentation
Message-ID:  <56BBBB33.7030200@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <20160210223156.GA7724@biertje.skysmurf.nl>
References:  <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st> <20160208064305.GB63030@server.rulingia.com> <56B8454F.8060605@marino.st> <1454923852.4807.19.camel@mathiaspicker.net> <56B8662A.2050502@marino.st> <CAN6yY1tuKNjJEfmhN9u8j6MfFKz=wvSwyX%2BcOiBPwnOL7PNA3Q@mail.gmail.com> <56BBAFB7.9080509@marino.st> <CAOjFWZ5YQ=Z3xzpZN48sivRw84NdZmyhD2AmGrU9%2BQmWeyeSkA@mail.gmail.com> <20160210223156.GA7724@biertje.skysmurf.nl>

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On 2/10/2016 11:31 PM, Alphons van Werven wrote:
> ???Between all the question marks???? (sorry, I just can't help myself) I
> can reveal that Portmaster detects at least some of the above kinds of
> changes. Perhaps not all four, but at least some (if not most).
> 
> I suspect it's probably not so much a matter of a feature having been
> removed, but rather of Portmaster insufficiently keeping up with the ports
> infrastructure in general and the options framework in particular. It's an
> orphaned port after all.

Well, if I make the assume that Kevin has been using portmaster, and
that using Synth revealed 42 obsolete cached configurations, I would
have to conclude PM doesn't do this anymore or does it very poorly and
misses a large number of configs.

John



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