Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:31:22 +0100 From: list-freebsd-ports@jyborn.se To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com>, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Daniil Berendeev <pipfstarrd@openmailbox.org> Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues Message-ID: <20161215183122.GG5268@pol-server.leissner.se> In-Reply-To: <3b00e76a-7a97-aa1b-72e9-236161044c3b@m5p.com> References: <c5bc24cc-5293-252b-ddbc-1e94a17ca3a8@openmailbox.org> <20161208085926.GC2691@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612150722250.36773@wonkity.com> <3b00e76a-7a97-aa1b-72e9-236161044c3b@m5p.com>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:18:05PM -0500, George Mitchell wrote: > On 12/15/16 09:40, 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. [...] > > Warren, you have hit the nail on the head. -- George +1 I never have problems with portmaster. (But portupgrade could at times be an utter mess, I never looked back after switching to portmaster many years ago.) And I'm not at all interested in running poudriere or synth, thank you. Peter
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