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

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

Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |bdrewery at FreeBSD.org
         Resolution|---                         |Not A Bug
             Status|New                         |Closed

--- Comment #4 from Bryan Drewery <bdrewery at FreeBSD.org> ---
(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.

I'm laughing. Poudriere is what we use to build packages now and is extremely
stable and efficient. It is 95% shell script.

The language something is written in is not very relevant usually as long as it
works. Portmaster has a lot of issues. I will agree that the structure of the
codebase in portmaster is very unmaintainable. I don't see any reason to ban it
unless it starts doing things wrong, like Tinderbox does now.

Closing as this is not a constructive ticket.

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