Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?
Baho Utot
baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Sun Dec 3 23:49:53 UTC 2017
On 12/3/2017 3:07 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
> 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?
>
Not really, you are still left with current hardware not being supported.
> 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.
>
Also if I was to update the "other tools" would it be incorperated into
the ports or would all the work be for nothing?
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