Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 15:34:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: jsa@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portmanager-0.4.1_9 Message-ID: <1357860854.69357.YahooMailClassic@web164003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301101531160.10767@wonkity.com>
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>--- On Thu, 1/10/13, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >> Is it gone forever? Is there a successor? >port*manager* is gone, portmaster and portupgrade are still available. BTW portmanager was excellent the for the first few years.=A0 One could beg= in an update, then cntl-c after a few minutes when it actually began buildi= ng ports, and up in the terminal would be a concise list of what needed to = be installed or upgraded.=A0 Later, its results were inaccurate (did not fi= nd installed ports...). It would serve many well if someone were to rewrite= if for the present ports structure IMHO.=A0 (That was for just one of its = usages that I used a lot, the others I was still using portupgrade or a cus= tom .sh script, for those fifty percent or so of the time in which I did not simply permit portmanager to complete the ta= sk.) J. Bouquet=20
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