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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:43:05 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com>
To:        John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st>
Cc:        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:  <20160208064305.GB63030@server.rulingia.com>
In-Reply-To: <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st>
References:  <56B754A8.3030605@marino.st>

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On 2016-Feb-07 15:28:56 +0100, John Marino <freebsdml@marino.st> wrote:
>Please do an honest "fly-off" between ports-mgmt/portmaster and
>ports-mgmt/synth.  I would love to hear what signficant thing portmaster
>can do that Synth can't.  (honestly)

Off the top of my head: Has no other ports dependencies:
portmaster - tick
synth - bzzt fail.

As far as I'm concerned that makes it an immediate non-starter.  I have
been bitten too many times by portupgrade updating one of its myriad
dependencies, then exploding and requiring manual repairs.

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Peter Jeremy

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