Flaws in the ports system?

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Thu Oct 20 15:15:49 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Vizion wrote:
> The system meets its original design specification - so to that extent I do 
> not believe that the system is flawed. There is however, in my opinion, a big 
> BUT>>>>

This is 100% true :-)

> 1. The user tools for maintaining the local ports collection do not include an 
> integrated GUI for management of the ports tree, local installation, 
> automated upgrading of the ports combined with configuration files. Such a 

Try sysutils/portbrowser. Haven't used it myself, but heard about it.

Edwin
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