The ports collection has some serious issues

[RW]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:40:46 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Matt Smith wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 08 05:16, Daniil Berendeev wrote:  
> >> 
> >> Although portmaster is not releated to the FreeBSD project and is
> >> an outside tool, there aren't any alternatives from the project
> >> itself. So use it or die. Not a nice situation.  
> >
> > People have been trying to get portmaster deprecated and removed
> > from the handbook but have met with resistance.  
> 
> Well, yes.  Because it works, has no dependencies, and there is no 
> equivalent replacement.  Except maybe portupgrade, which has legacy 
> problems like poor default options.

That's a very minor issue, and an absurd excuse to rule-out portupgrade.