[Bug 199571] ports-mgmt/portmaster: [change-request] please ban portmaster

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199571

Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Chris Hutchinson <portmaster at bsdforge.com> ---
(In reply to torsten.eichstaedt from comment #0)
> Rationale: portmaster is a >4000 (!!!) line shell script.  It's common sense
> that shell scripts are ok for small tasks but quickly become unmaintanable
> once they grow.
> 
> Portmaster should simply do "cd /usr/ports && make help"
> 
> Don't laugh I'm serious with this.

Correction; it's a collection of routines. Not unlike that of
a program written in C, or any number of other languages.

I might also add; it works. So what exactly is your beef, again?

--Chris

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