Re: FreeBSD ports community is broken [port building configuration notes]

Hi Mark,

Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 2024, at 05:13, Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> wrote:
>
> > I've probably grasped the wrong ideas from this thread. I thought it was
> > about the implied effective deprecation of the ports infrastructure for
> > a binary package only structure, with poudriere being used to create
> > custom packages in any way it wants going forward.
>
> Please do not confuse the original thread's overall range of points
> with this more technical subthread. I've been limiting myself to the
> subthread's subject area as best I can. Given that focus, . . .
>
> To my knowledge, poudriere is a user of the ports and pkg
> infrastructures (that both exist independent of poudriere), never
> the other way around. In that it is like portmaster: layered
> on top without invalidating the infrastructures below.
>
> This also makes poudriere just one of multiple alternatives.
> I've not suggested eliminating any of them.

Thanks for the reply. That makes it clearer. I did indeed get
confused by the way the thread evolved.

Cheers, Jamie