Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

[Carmel NY]

> First, welcome flavors. It has been badly needed for a while and is going to
> clean up a couple of messes that have been plaguing the port system for a
> long time.
> 
> Second, whither port msanagement tools? At least portmaster now appears
> dead. Any reason to expect it to be workable again? I have not tried synth
> with flavors, yet,.but I see noting committed to deal with them, so it looks
> like port management has devolved to raw "make" operations or poudriere.
> Am I missing some other option?
> 
> I really with there ha been at least a days warning of the flavoring of python
> so I could have set up to do tings a bit more smoothly.
> 
> Some issues are still unclear. e.g. pygobject3 is orphaned. Since I have 23
> ports that depend on py34-gobject3, I don't see deleting it as viable. pkg
> shows no upgrade path... just "orphaned: devel/py3-gobject3". None of the
> ports htat depend in it show that they need updates. I'm going to guess that I
> can build the py-gobject3 port with FLAVOR=36 and that will fix a bunch of
> stuff, but I am not really sure. If I rebuild that way, will I break any of the
> ports that previously wanted ry34-gobject3? Don't know, but it will break my
> entire desktop if it fails.
> 
> I might mention that cython, compat10x, compat9x are also orphaned. This
> looks pretty ugly. Are they really gone? Or re there flavor here, as well?
> again, pkg gives no clues.

Synth is failing since this change. I get the feeling that, as usually happens, nobody
actually vetted this correctly.

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Carmel