Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Sat Dec 2 13:09:06 UTC 2017



On 12/02/17 07:23, Charlie Li wrote:
> On 02/12/2017 06:53, Carmel NY wrote:
>> Well, I certainly have no intention of installing and then learning how to use
>> an industrial sized solution line poudriere for a relatively small home network.
>>
> poudriere is not industrial-sized at all. Sure, it has many features
> that I don't exactly use, but it's certainly not industrial-sized. I had
> the same impression of a monstrosity before I started using it myself,
> on my *laptop* of all things.
>> Looking back at other port management utilities like "portmanager",
>> "portmaster", "portupgrade" and now "synth", The FreeBSD team has done a
>> pretty good job of obfuscating and rendering them impotent. Which brings me
>> to what happens if I do embrace "poudriere". How long before that becomes
>> history also?
>>
> portmgr officially maintains and promotes poudriere. It's not going
> anywhere until they say it is.
> 

Sorry tired of playing games,  leaving FreeBSD as we speak


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