qt5-webengine

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Sat Apr 4 23:42:12 UTC 2020


Jonathan Chen writes:

>		 Frankly speaking, if you're compiling your own ports, you
>  have to use either synth or poudriere; anything else will cost you
>  time hunting down broken dependencies.

	Speaking as someone who's been compiling from ports for at least
a decade, and maintains 1200+ ports on at least one box:
	Yes ... but not much.  I use portmaster and stuff mostly Just
Works(tm).  [Thanks, guys!]  Ports get updated regularly, and the last
major problem I can remember had to do with defauly version bumps in
perl and python (2->3).
	I understand there are folks for whom poudriere or synth are The
Right Tool(tm).  But I am one of a number of folks for whom it is like
carpet-bombing the neighborhood to get rid of one miscreant squirrel.


			Respectfully,


				Robert Huff



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