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

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Wed Dec 6 13:26:53 UTC 2017



On 12/06/17 04:53, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 05/12/2017 à 23:25, Baho Utot a écrit :
>>
>>
>> On 12/05/17 17:09, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
>>> Le 05/12/2017 à 10:53, Aryeh Friedman a écrit :
>>>> TL;DR;
>>>> Flavors <bleep>'ed up ports and there are no good ways/alternates
>>>> for how
>>>> to use the ports collection for normal everyday users/maintainers
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for supporting all the hard work and countless hours that so
>>> many volunteers put in making the ports tree better.
>>>
>>> It really helps motivate all of us continue bringing the ports tree
>>> forward when we get emails with so much joy and positive attitude.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thank you for taking a perfectly good system and breaking it as well
>> as making it unusable, unstable.  You just don't know of all the
>> countless hours spent after running an update and taking a week to get
>> it working again.
>>
>> It really helps motivate all of us users to continue to have to fix
>> broken systems due to broken ports system and then be told how great
>> things are, brings us so much joy and keeps our attitude positive.
> 
> For the users using binary packages, poudriere, or the ports tree
> directly nothing changed.
> 
> For users of third party abandonware, well, they were warned that it was
> bound to happen at one point, and guess what, it happened. I don't
> really understand why you continue spending all this time complaining
> whereas switching to, say, poudriere, would have taken you about 5 minutes.
> 
> 

Because I am a cranky old fart.  Anyway of all the things that you 
posted nothing applies


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