Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2016 09:06:29 -0600 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: Hrant Dadivanyan <hrant@dadivanyan.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, tingox@gmail.com Subject: Re: The ports collection has some serious issues Message-ID: <99aa1f8b-066a-088b-e4ce-63bb2d291236@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <E1cI9ke-000ANC-DY@pandora.amnic.net> References: <E1cI9ke-000ANC-DY@pandora.amnic.net>
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On 12/17/2016 01:49, Hrant Dadivanyan wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com> 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. Why don't *you* look for a way to keep it up? TZ already said he is looking to drop maintainership. Now *YOU* have the chance to do more than order volunteers around. > >> 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 Hrant, you must work on your reading comprehension. Nobody has talked about removing portmaster, at all. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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