[Bug 214679] "Recommendation" for portmaster and portupgrade needs to be removed

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--- Comment #3 from Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> ---
I'm not portmgr anymore, so I would share what was discussed long ago.

While it is true portmaster and portupgrade are still in ports, none of them
are still in active maintenance. We discussed a lot between portmgr about
removing portmaster/portupgrade from the handbook.

Beside some drawbacks of those tools which yes could be documented as
"pro/cons" for true, no active maintenance is also a problem regarding some
evolution that are planned in the ports tree for very long: subpackages and
alternative/flavours. which will break the design around which portupgrade and
portmaster are built: a port is unique via its origin.

portmaster took years to catch up on pkg_install -> pkg transition (portupgrade
was a bit faster to catch up due to active maintenance from bdrewery on
portupgrade at the time).

I would vote on removing documentation of both tools in the handbook

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