On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, RW via freebsd-ports wrote:
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.
I didn't rule it out. Portupgrade gets some of the defaults wrong, like
not running all the 'make config' steps first. That's a legacy issue
because if the default changes, it could conceivably cause problems for
existing users. Beyond that, other than a dependency on Ruby,
portupgrade at least exists in the same space as portmaster.
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