Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

[Carmel NY]

On  Saturday, December 2, 2017 8:01 AM, Baho Utot stated:
> On 12/02/17 07:23, Charlie Li wrote:
> > On 02/12/2017 06:53, Carmel NY wrote:
> >> Well, I certainly have no intention of installing and then learning
> >> how to use an industrial sized solution line poudriere for a relatively small
> home network.
> >>
> > poudriere is not industrial-sized at all. Sure, it has many features
> > that I don't exactly use, but it's certainly not industrial-sized. I
> > had the same impression of a monstrosity before I started using it
> > myself, on my *laptop* of all things.
> >> Looking back at other port management utilities like "portmanager",
> >> "portmaster", "portupgrade" and now "synth", The FreeBSD team has
> >> done a pretty good job of obfuscating and rendering them impotent.
> >> Which brings me to what happens if I do embrace "poudriere". How long
> >> before that becomes history also?
> >>
> > portmgr officially maintains and promotes poudriere. It's not going
> > anywhere until they say it is.
> >
> 
> Sorry tired of playing games,  leaving FreeBSD as we speak

I am going to give them a chance to get synth back up and running.  If not, then I am out of her too.

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Carmel

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.