Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

Peter Jeremy peter at rulingia.com
Mon Feb 8 06:56:35 UTC 2016


On 2016-Feb-07 15:28:56 +0100, John Marino <freebsdml at marino.st> wrote:
>Please do an honest "fly-off" between ports-mgmt/portmaster and
>ports-mgmt/synth.  I would love to hear what signficant thing portmaster
>can do that Synth can't.  (honestly)

Off the top of my head: Has no other ports dependencies:
portmaster - tick
synth - bzzt fail.

As far as I'm concerned that makes it an immediate non-starter.  I have
been bitten too many times by portupgrade updating one of its myriad
dependencies, then exploding and requiring manual repairs.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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