[Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes

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--- Comment #8 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
I'm not the one that enter the PR and starting spewing FUD and red herrings. 
You joined on your own accord.

Do we need to get Core to make policy on whether or not UNMAINTAINED system can
be documented in the handbook?

Are you speaking for portmgr?  In other words, are you saying portmgr is
publicly declaring that unmaintained software is suitable for the handbook?

What is portmgr OFFICIAL position documentation requirements?  It might be
helpful to know because I absolutely dumbfounded that there is even a debate on
this.



P.S. The "some body prefer no-dep tools" is also fud.  
pkg install synth installs a small package, and it's available on all
synth-supported platforms.  Or are you, as portmgr, telling people not to use
official package binaries?  As I explained before, if somebody is really crazy
about building everything themselves, you could bootstrap synth anyway ("pkg
ins synth, then build synth with synth and replace it").  Don't tell me that's
not an acceptable response to an already unreasonable position.  It's
completely valid so I REALLY don't want to hear any more FUD about single dep
b/c 1) it's not a requirement and 2) there are already options that satisfy
that and 3) portmaster is still in the tree.

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