Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

Steven Hartland killing at multiplay.co.uk
Sun Dec 3 20:07:13 UTC 2017


Come on guys you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.

Yes I got caught out by flavours too, but it was quickly fixed and it adds
a much needed feature which will make ports and associated tools better at
the end of the day.

People really seem to miss the point that there are only finite resources
and as an open source project that depends on people volunteering their
time to add new features and maintain tools.

A number of the messages to this thread really don’t seem to appreciate
that and they come across very poorly.

Sure it would it be nice if everyone’s favourite tool was always maintained
in good time but that can’t always be the case, however if anyone really
wants something, they can chip in and make it happen, thats the beauty of
open source projects.

For those who are considering migrating to something else, would your time
not be better spent chipping in to help?

When we adopted poudriere at work, it really enabled us to make much
quicker progress than we had been able to do with portmaster, so for those
that havent tried it its well worth a shot if your previous favourite tool
hasn’t been updated yet.

  Regards
  Steve


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