Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > 1. Pulling in the dependencies. This is in effect doing a "make > package-depends". You can > do this for yourself, and see that it takes a long time. I honestly don't > see how to make > this faster, as presumably it involves calling "make" on all the dependency > ports, and I > would guess that each new invocation of make adds considerable overhead just > loading the > program.
This is "static" information, required for nearly all ports -> put it in INDEX > 2. Sorting the dependencies in pkg_create. My fix now cuts this out > completely. Thus there > is no need to change the structure of /var/db/pkg to use databases or > anything like this. I haven't had time to look at your patches, but are your removing second order dependancies? This would cut down the tree size considerably. Ulrich Spoerlein -- "The trouble with the dictionary is you have to know how the word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled." -- Will Cuppy _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
