Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-11 Thread Lev Serebryakov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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*

Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-11 Thread Matt Smith
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

Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-09 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:03:04AM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm bringing this to the attention of the ports community to try to > come up with a consensus about how to handle existing documentation > for ageing packages, in this case portmaster. > > This bug report suggests removing

Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-07 Thread John Marino
> I am not portmgr, but do use portmaster for updating ports on systems > running STABLE or HEAD. I still see no tool which provides the features of > portmaster. I also realize that this is far from a universal opinion. Please do an honest "fly-off" between ports-mgmt/portmaster and

Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, John Marino wrote: I am not portmgr, but do use portmaster for updating ports on systems running STABLE or HEAD. I still see no tool which provides the features of portmaster. I also realize that this is far from a universal opinion. Please do an honest "fly-off" between

Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2016-Feb-07 15:28:56 +0100, John Marino wrote: >Please do an honest "fly-off" between ports-mgmt/portmaster and >ports-mgmt/synth. I would love to hear what signficant thing portmaster >can do that Synth can't. (honestly) Off the top of my head: Has no other ports

Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
I'm bringing this to the attention of the ports community to try to come up with a consensus about how to handle existing documentation for ageing packages, in this case portmaster. This bug report suggests removing the documentation for portmaster because it is out of date and no longer

Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

2016-02-06 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I'm bringing this to the attention of the ports community to try to > come up with a consensus about how to handle existing documentation > for ageing packages, in this case portmaster. > > This bug report suggests