Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:32:07 +0000 From: Matt Smith <fbsd@xtaz.co.uk> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Cc: John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes) Message-ID: <20160211213207.GA1243@xtaz.uk> In-Reply-To: <56BCE01D.4010701@FreeBSD.org> References: <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st> <56BCE01D.4010701@FreeBSD.org>
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On Feb 11 22:25, Lev Serebryakov wrote: >On 07.02.2016 17:28, John Marino wrote: > >> ports-mgmt/synth. I would love to hear what signficant thing >> portmaster can do that Synth can't. (honestly) > Be installed FROM PORTS without all this build-one-more-gcc stuff. >Ada? For *port*management* tool? Are you joking? > >-- >// Lev Serebryakov Remember that before portmaster we had cvsup which was written in Modula-3 and portupgrade which is written in Ruby. Whilst it is nice that portmaster is just a simple shell script with no dependancies that's a relatively new thing. -- Matt
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