Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:07:48 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Removal of Portmanager Message-ID: <20130112120748.61c8e103@gumby.homeunix.com>
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"Does not support modern ports features such as MOVED, is lacking upstream and active contributions, and does not support pkgng. Consider using ports-mgmt/portmaster, ports-mgmt/portupgrade or pkgng." These seem more like bogus excuses than reasons. Portmanager doesn't need MOVED, and the author chose not to support it. There's no compelling reason for portmanager users to switch to pkgng which may well be the reason no-one has done anything. The logical time to remove portmanager is when there are no supported releases with support for the old package tools - if it's not been patched to support pkgng by then.
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