On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 07:54:57PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:32:38PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze 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. > > > > I think that before you abandon something you should first understand > > it. Figure out what is taking so long to register the port and then > > work out whether it can be optimized. > > What takes so long in my opinion, is that not only the dependencies are > registered as dependencies, but that the dependencies of dependencies are also > registered as dependencies and so forth. Since all the commands supplied by > ports walk dependencies recursively, as well as tools like portupgrade, this > is unnecessary (that is, assuming that I understood bsd.port.mk correctly). > > To abandon this behaviour would in my opinion only have advantages.
Go and substantiate your opinion with some facts, then we'll talk. > > Kris > > > > P.S. Please wrap your lines so your emails may be easily read > > Hope it works, now. Thanks Kris
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