[HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 2020-08-04 20:43, Steve Wills wrote:
> 
> We are planning to deprecate use of portsnap in ports.
> 
> The reasons are as follows (in no particular order):
> 
> * Portsnap doesn't support quarterly branches, even years after 
> quarterly branches were created and changed to the default for non-HEAD 
> packages.

Hi,

Maybe some silly questions already answered:

1) portsnap is populating /usr/ports . Is this location still hardcoded 
for ports tree installations, or can it be installed anywhere?

2) Should portsnap be a wrapper for GIT/SVN whatever is used?

3) Should /usr/ports be removed from any mtree files?

--HPS