Misuse of PORTREVISION (Re: svn commit: r434379 - head/multimedia/x265)

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:56:17PM +0000, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> As I've said many times, we should just kill these outdated tools and
> use pkg (not make!) to resolve build depends. It is merely a political
> decision not technical one.

Well make(1) is not an outdated tool. :)  Also keeping pkg(8)'s involvement
until very late in the packaging stage make the process more transparent
and easier to debug/hack on.  I personally like it the way it is now, and
I understand why you're having traction with this proposal of yours.

./danfe