From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 20:16:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C458106566C for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com) Received: from mail.intertainservices.com (mail.intertainservices.com [38.99.187.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AA48FC08 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:16:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.10.199] (unknown [172.16.10.199]) by mail.intertainservices.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 76B3256DAD for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:15:59 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C6AEDFE.2080201@intertainservices.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:15:58 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <4C5BC280.1070805@FreeBSD.org> <4C5BF352.5050004@dataix.net> <4C5C7DFF.8020400@FreeBSD.org> <4C5CFBCD.8090702@dataix.net> <4C6417BC.9060605@intertainservices.com> <4C656919.9070703@intertainservices.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-intertainservices-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-intertainservices-MailScanner-ID: 76B3256DAD.AE5FF X-intertainservices-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-intertainservices-MailScanner-From: mike.jakubik@intertainservices.com X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:16:07 -0000 On 8/17/2010 4:07 AM, Matthias Andree wrote: > To be a bit impolite and blunt, if people acted a bit less helplessly -- > meaning that the solution is so relatively simple as a one-liner in a > reasonable shell -- there probably isn't a need to change portmaster > code. This can instead go into the portmaster manual as a usage example. If no one asked or complained there would be no progress. I think you misnterperted my intentions, which were to make the tool easier and more functional for everyone. A lot of complex tasks can be accomplished with a 1 line amalgamation of grep, awk, perl, etc. This doesn't mean we shouldn't build tools that simplify those tasks, hence the portmaster tool itself. > And telling what this is up to doing without committing to it is as > simple as prefixing "echo" to the whole line. > You assume my level of commitment because i didn't produce code before asking the author for his opinion? Ok..