From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Fri Dec 16 15:40:02 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F913C83B6F for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:40:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marquis@roble.com) Received: from mx5.roble.com (mx5.roble.com [206.40.34.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx5.roble.com", Issuer "mx5.roble.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24E7D1B61 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:40:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marquis@roble.com) Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 07:34:19 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues In-Reply-To: <3cf805df-eb25-187c-8bf9-b6c2be5e977d@marino.st> Message-ID: <1612160725340.3123@mx5.roble.com> References: <3959e18e-5819-b2c5-69a9-c71ce1282383@marino.st> <3cf805df-eb25-187c-8bf9-b6c2be5e977d@marino.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 15:40:02 -0000 > It is every week. Consider the FreeBSD forums as well. > "misuse" and "misunderstanding" failures are attributed to the tool. Let's > stop making excuses for portmaster. It is what it is and we've had years to > evaluate it. If portmaster was part of base I'd agree that it should be deprecated, however, being a port it can be afforded more leeway. All portmaster needs IMO is a strong WARNING message to be displayed on installation A) enumerating some of the potential bugs and B) clarifying that portmaster is third party software that is neither actively maintained nor supported (or recommended?) by FreeBSD. Roger