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Roland Smith wrote:

> Tools like portupgrade and portmaster and even the ports system are
> great but they have their limitations. I think they are kept relatively
> simple for a reason. It's much better to have a simple (maintainable)
> tool that does 95% of the jobs well than to build an extremely
> complicated ACME contraption that can cover all the corner cases and
> oddball situations. It's just not worth the effort.

As portmaster author, this precisely describes my perspective.


FWIW,

Doug

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