[LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
RW wrote:
On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:32:38 +0200
"[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With Xorg updated to 7.2 many ports take much longer to register than
to download, build and install. I think it's time to abandon the
recursive pulling in of dependencies.
Does that matter all that much when there are ports that take
several hours to build?
As I see it the important figure is the total time taken to register
all installed ports, divided by the total time to download, build and
install them. As long as that figure remains small it doesn't really
matter that small ports install inefficiently.
My guess is that registering takes about 15% of the total upgrade time. Is that
a small figure?
I agree with LoN that registering ports is taking way too long. The
same is true also of building packages. When you do something like
building gnome2 it all takes a very great deal of time.
However instead of abandoning the small ports approach, maybe the whole
registering of ports needs redesigning, perhaps finding better
algorithms, or perhaps using databases and things like that instead of
text files and the directory /var/db/pkg. Unfortunately I don't have
the necessary skill set to help, or even to know the true cause of the
slowdown. On the other hand, I have a feeling that people are already
working on this.
Stephen
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