On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 19:31:22 +0100 list-freebsd-po...@jyborn.se wrote: > 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. >
It seems that if people happy with portmaster keep silent, others will assume it's okay to try to dismiss it; so here am I, happy with portmaster. I could switch to something else that is feature wise similar; but if it would not written in some quasi-obselete/niche/hipster programing language or involve admin/config tasks like creating repos. Until a challenger appears, I'm just going to use and recommend portmaster. Happy bsding everybody -- Matthieu
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