On Fri, 16 Dec 2016, at 16:34, Roger Marquis wrote: > If portmaster was part of base I'd agree that it should be deprecated, > however, being a port it can be afforded more leeway. All portmaster > needs IMO is a strong WARNING message to be displayed on installation A) > enumerating some of the potential bugs and B) clarifying that portmaster > is third party software that is neither actively maintained nor > supported (or recommended?) by FreeBSD. > > Roger
^ this ^ The key thing that needs to change for newcomers (as a recent one myself) is to give a clear & simple recommendation in the Handbook.. not in ports or whatever after you've sifted the internet looking for more information - the implications of choosing pkg quarterly vs pkg latest, vs poudriere, portmaster etc is not at all clear - it's hard to know what is project supported vs community supported - knowing that e.g. DFLY uses synth exclusively now, and the the FreeBSD build cluster uses poudriere, gives a warm fuzzy feeling Some illustrative use cases are: - sysadmin for servers - personal user who needs custom options I was lucky to run into the first poudriere episode from bsdnow.tv and went with that from the get-go. synth's documentation is superb and keeps getting better. Both are excellent tools. A+ Dave _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
