On 12/2/2017 1:43 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 11:53:58AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:
Looking back at other port management utilities like "portmanager",
"portmaster", "portupgrade" and now "synth", The FreeBSD team has
done a pretty good job of obfuscating and rendering them impotent.
That's one possible explanation. Or, as Occam's Razor suggests, they
continue to try to modernize the Ports Collection, despite obstacles
(including stale codebases and stubborn maintainers).
I'll admit some of the transitions have been pretty rough. But when
you go back and look at Ports as of e.g. FreeBSD 4, there have been a
lot of good changes -- including some which were necessary due to sheer
scale.
If we had stayed with what we had then, the whole thing would have
collapsed by now.
mcl
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What you have noe is not that great either. When is base going to be
packed.....ie something that makes sense and works?
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