From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Dec 17 07:49:57 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 98471C84960 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:49:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrant@dadivanyan.net) Received: from pandora.amnic.net (pandora.amnic.net [IPv6:2001:67c:21c:a610::11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 516AF672; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:49:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrant@dadivanyan.net) Received: from ran by pandora.amnic.net with local (Exim 4.87 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1cI9ke-000ANC-DY; Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:49:52 +0400 Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues In-Reply-To: <192c99ca-ed3b-44da-633a-99629fdcea70@marino.st> To: John Marino Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 11:49:52 +0400 (AMT) From: Hrant Dadivanyan CC: FreeBSD Mailing List , tingox@gmail.com X-PGP: https://amnic.net/pgpkeys/hrant.asc X-NCC-RegID: am.isoc X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL127 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-Id: 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: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 07:49:57 -0000 > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> On 2016-Dec-15 19:31:22 +0100, list-freebsd-ports at jyborn.se wrote: > >> Interestingly, the most vocal proponent of deleting portmaster and > >> portupgrade is the author/maintainer of synch. > > It's not interesting at all. Synth was in a large part created because > people were irrationally sticking with portmaster and more frighteningly > gaining new users. > Please don't judge what's rational and what's not, because it's community and when many people, even irrationally from your POV, sticking with portmaster, then it's worth to consider and look for a way to keep it up. > The point is that these tools are in great shape and to imply otherwise > needs proof. It's portmaster that's not receiving updates. > In current shape it works well for many people (and demanded by) in community, so why should it be removed ? You can warn as much as you want against, but you can't decide to remove. Hrant > John > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Hrant Dadivanyan (aka Ran d'Adi) hrant(at)dadivanyan.net /* "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes." */ ran(at)psg.com