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Date:      Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:09:05 +0000
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port management tools (was: Status of synth)
Message-ID:  <20170216150905.4c76175a@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <6115a896-7e90-ce22-6355-ed1bb7e02ada@m5p.com>
References:  <201702160844.v1G8iiRP000405@gw.catspoiler.org> <6115a896-7e90-ce22-6355-ed1bb7e02ada@m5p.com>

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 09:19:24 -0500
George Mitchell wrote:


> > Yeah, I really like this a lot more than going through all the
> > config screens.  Back when I used portupgrade, I found that it was
> > too easy to accidentally set some option for a port to a
> > non-default value where it would persist forever. [...]  
> 
> This is in a nutshell why one group of FreeBSD users love portmaster
> so much.  I switched from portugrade to portmaster a long time ago
> for this very reason.

Do you mean because you didn't want to type "-c"?



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