On Feb 11 22:25, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
On 07.02.2016 17:28, John Marino wrote:

ports-mgmt/synth.  I would love to hear what signficant thing
portmaster can do that Synth can't.  (honestly)
Be installed FROM PORTS without all this build-one-more-gcc stuff.
Ada? For *port*management* tool? Are you joking?

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// Lev Serebryakov

Remember that before portmaster we had cvsup which was written in Modula-3 and portupgrade which is written in Ruby. Whilst it is nice that portmaster is just a simple shell script with no dependancies that's a relatively new thing.

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Matt
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