Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

[Baho Utot]

On 12/2/2017 1:43 PM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 11:53:58AM +0000, Carmel NY wrote:
>> 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.
> That's one possible explanation.  Or, as Occam's Razor suggests, they
> continue to try to modernize the Ports Collection, despite obstacles
> (including stale codebases and stubborn maintainers).
>
> I'll admit some of the transitions have been pretty rough.  But when
> you go back and look at Ports as of e.g. FreeBSD 4, there have been a
> lot of good changes -- including some which were necessary due to sheer
> scale.
>
> If we had stayed with what we had then, the whole thing would have
> collapsed by now.
>
> mcl
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What you have noe is not that great either.  When is base going to be 
packed.....ie something that makes sense and works?