Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 04:53:07AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> First some background (my typical use cases for ports):
> 
> 0. FreeBSD lilith 11.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE #0 r321664: Fri Jul 28
> 23:35:18 EDT 2017     root at lilith:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 1. Daily routine (current):
> 
>       cd /usr/src
>       svn update (from 11.1-RELEASE)
>       [make -DESTDIR=/ world kernel&&etcupdate&&reboot as needed]
> 
>       cd /usr/ports
>       svn update (from HEAD)
>       portmaster -ad
>       [reboot if any Xorg/xfce or stuff in rc.d got modified]
> 
> 2. I maintain devel/aegis (which as per Bug 219284 does not compile with
> anything greater then GCC 5 [I don't have time to figure out how to patch
> it is make it work {the upstream maintainer died a few years ago}]).
> 
> So what happens when I see UPDATING 20171130:
> 
> 1. I decide to try poudriere since it seems to what people are raving
> about.   What a <bleep>'ing confusing mess it is use!!!! After deciding it
> is over kill I go to option 2

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What's wrong with [1]?

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-poudriere.html