Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

Matt Smith fbsd at xtaz.co.uk
Thu Feb 11 21:32:11 UTC 2016


On Feb 11 22:25, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
>On 07.02.2016 17:28, John Marino wrote:
>
>> ports-mgmt/synth.  I would love to hear what signficant thing
>> portmaster can do that Synth can't.  (honestly)
> Be installed FROM PORTS without all this build-one-more-gcc stuff.
>Ada? For *port*management* tool? Are you joking?
>
>-- 
>// Lev Serebryakov

Remember that before portmaster we had cvsup which was written in 
Modula-3 and portupgrade which is written in Ruby. Whilst it is nice 
that portmaster is just a simple shell script with no dependancies 
that's a relatively new thing.

-- 
Matt


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