Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:26:41 -0500 From: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless) Message-ID: <81bb4bb8-eb4c-b4cd-654e-056867f10cc7@columbus.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <72f02c32-f5d1-6c3c-f248-4548f04a7b0d@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAGBxaXmwzXqZXSKX4-_qe15L3Xa8bVx%2BsFnFrxoksY8Ka3gS3w@mail.gmail.com> <7a9a2753-6460-a2bf-5156-5eab92a0b2f8@FreeBSD.org> <0a06d3dd-10a7-fd87-9348-f520f3dfc175@columbus.rr.com> <72f02c32-f5d1-6c3c-f248-4548f04a7b0d@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/06/17 04:53, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 05/12/2017 à 23:25, Baho Utot a écrit : >> >> >> On 12/05/17 17:09, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>> Le 05/12/2017 à 10:53, Aryeh Friedman a écrit : >>>> TL;DR; >>>> Flavors <bleep>'ed up ports and there are no good ways/alternates >>>> for how >>>> to use the ports collection for normal everyday users/maintainers >>> >>> >>> Thank you for supporting all the hard work and countless hours that so >>> many volunteers put in making the ports tree better. >>> >>> It really helps motivate all of us continue bringing the ports tree >>> forward when we get emails with so much joy and positive attitude. >>> >>> >> >> Thank you for taking a perfectly good system and breaking it as well >> as making it unusable, unstable. You just don't know of all the >> countless hours spent after running an update and taking a week to get >> it working again. >> >> It really helps motivate all of us users to continue to have to fix >> broken systems due to broken ports system and then be told how great >> things are, brings us so much joy and keeps our attitude positive. > > For the users using binary packages, poudriere, or the ports tree > directly nothing changed. > > For users of third party abandonware, well, they were warned that it was > bound to happen at one point, and guess what, it happened. I don't > really understand why you continue spending all this time complaining > whereas switching to, say, poudriere, would have taken you about 5 minutes. > > Because I am a cranky old fart. Anyway of all the things that you posted nothing applies
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