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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2017 12:08:16 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [RFC] Why FreeBSD ports should have branches by OS version
Message-ID:  <201706271008.v5RA8GUf099489@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Tue, 27 Jun 2017 07:37:22 -0000." <61.E4.01815.93B02595@dnvrco-omsmta03>

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"Thomas Mueller" wrote:
> from Dewayne Geraghty:
> 
> > Synth is very good.  It builds upon pkg and is way less complicated that
> > poudriere.

I dont know the relative dependencies counts for both synth & poudriere,
but I suspect synth is bigger ?
  ( I have a messed up current here where loads of ports break, I
  tried to build synth to then recover other ports, but synth broke
  deep, building some gcc, & I have a working poudriere.)

If one has a good stable platform, then a nice maintainer that does
chroot/jail elegantly with lots of features is probably attractive,
& dependency count not a worry.

But if one stands on a broken system & needs to recover, some simple
stock cc & sh tool/procedure with no dependencies is attractive, even if
one has to coble something ones self.

Cheers,
Julian
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