The ports collection has some serious issues

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On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 01:18:05PM -0500, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 12/15/16 09:40, Warren Block wrote:
> > On Thu, 8 Dec 2016, Matt Smith wrote:
> > 
> >> On Dec 08 05:16, Daniil Berendeev wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Although portmaster is not releated to the FreeBSD project and is an
> >>> outside tool, there aren't any alternatives from the project itself. So
> >>> use it or die. Not a nice situation.
> >>
> >> People have been trying to get portmaster deprecated and removed from
> >> the handbook but have met with resistance.
> > 
> > Well, yes.  Because it works, has no dependencies, and there is no
> > equivalent replacement.  [...]
> 
> Warren, you have hit the nail on the head.                  -- George

+1

I never have problems with portmaster.
(But portupgrade could at times be an utter mess,
I never looked back after switching to portmaster
many years ago.)

And I'm not at all interested in running poudriere
or synth, thank you.

Peter