Welcome flavors! portmaster now dead? synth?

[Baho Utot]

On 12/02/17 06:53, Carmel NY wrote:
> On Saturday, December 2, 2017 5:40 AM, Stari Karp stated:
>> On Sat, 2017-12-02 at 01:12 +0000, Ben Woods wrote:
>>> Hi Carmel,
>>>
>>> My understanding is that poudriere is the only package building system
>>> that is officially supported by the portmgr, apart from raw make.
>>>
>>> There are many other nice ports building tools contributed by the
>>> community, which each have their niche market, but the maintenance of
>>> those tools is a community responsibility also.
>>>
>>> The announcement of impending flavors and breakage of package building
>>> infrastructure that doesn’t support it was some time ago (I believe at
>>> least 6 months), with a number of reminders since then. If a community
>>>
>> Yes, 6 months but IMO ports maintainers have still 2 or three months.
>> They "pushed" flavors out to early. I do not why.
> 
> Well, I certainly have no intention of installing and then learning how to use
> an industrial sized solution line poudriere for a relatively small home network.
> 
> I am hoping that  someone can get "synth" back up and working correctly. If not
> it might be time for me to look at another OS for my network.
> 
> Looking back at other port management utilities like "portmanager",
> "portmaster", "portupgrade" and now "synth", The FreeBSD team has done a
> pretty good job of obfuscating and rendering them impotent. Which brings me
> to what happens if I do embrace "poudriere". How long before that becomes
> history also?
> 

Which is one of the many reasons I am leaving FreeBSD.  Going back to my 
own scratch built linux.  Just tired of FreeBSD playing games, ain't 
doing it any more.