> On 2 Dec, 2017, at 13:41, Baho Utot <baho-u...@columbus.rr.com> wrote: > > > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> > > What you have noe is not that great either. When is base going to be > packed.....ie something that makes sense and works?
You seem very angry about things breaking in HEAD, Baho. Things break in HEAD sometimes. This is why we recommend that end-users who can't have breakages, or users who depend on undeveloped tools, stay on the quarterly branch. Portmaster works perfectly on quarterly. Always has. Everyone understands that poudriere isn't for everybody---Steve Kargl outlined a pretty classic example of a workflow and system that aren't amenable to poudriere. We've asked repeatedly for people to work on portmaster. Far more people complain about it breaking than put in ANY effort to fix it. HEAD is for development. You have to tolerate breakage on HEAD, and participate in fixing things, otherwise you need to switch to the quarterly branches. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
