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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:38:54 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
Cc:        LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portsnap
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1uzn%2BhbNYGRDmLUfWMm9QENPs3NddKJ7x0LFQkYCby1=A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:37 AM Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> > Am 26.12.2020 um 20:04 schrieb LuMiWa via freebsd-ports <
> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>:
> > ...and I will continue to use portmaster. But I don't understand why
> > we should no keep portsnap.
>
> Kudos to Stefan for keeping portmaster relevant and up-to-date.
> But I never understood the appeal of portsnap. What's the advantage over
>
> svnlite co ...
> cd /usr/ports; make update
>
> This mechanism is in the base system, so an extra tool demands some
> justification ;-)
>
> Kind regards,
> Patrick
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> portsnap(8) predates svnlite by quite a bit, but you have just described
why it is not really worth the overhead of maintaining it. As bugzilla
describes many ticket closures, Overcome by events".
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Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
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