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Recommend against portmaster/portupgrade
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Authored by adamw on Nov 19 2019, 11:22 PM.
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We need to start making it clear that people shouldn't be using portmaster/portupgrade.

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linimon retitled this revision from Recommend against port* to Recommend against portmaster/portupgrade.Nov 20 2019, 10:37 PM

@mat can you please take a look at this? The recent b.s. on ports@ affirms for me the need to warn people against using systemically broken tools.