Who was the mental genius

[Paul Schmehl]

--On June 5, 2014 at 11:18:31 PM +0200 "A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven" 
<freebsd at skysmurf.nl> wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> That decided it was a good idea to completely break ports to force
>> people to upgrade?  You couldn't come up with a warning system instead
>> of outright breaking ports?  The idiots are apparently running the
>> asylum.  {{sigh}}
>
> It might help to know exactly what you're talking about... What is it that
> broke?
>

The change to make that causes this when you run pkg commands or try to 
build ports:

Unknown modifier 't'

It was done deliberately to break ports so that people would be forced to 
upgrade to a supported version.

<https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46291>

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