On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:17:34AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Steven Kreuzer wrote: > >> This thread was called "results of ports re-engineering survey" but I >> figured I would start a new thread. > > Rightly so. > >> On Dec 12, 2007, at 6:45 AM, Ade Lovett wrote: >>> We *know* it can be done better. We *know* the scaling limits of the >>> current system, and most of us are completely amazed it even still works. >>> If y'all want to make a difference, concepts and ideas we have plenty of. >>> Code talks. >> >> Out of curiosity, are any of these shortcomings documented anywhere? I >> have been using ports on my home machine for a long time and I've never >> had any problems with it. I assume the issues come into play when you work >> with multiple systems you are trying to keep in sync, etc. >> >> I would be interested in reading about some of the limitations people have >> run into when using ports. > > Notable with the new modular Xorg is the speed of changes > (install/deinstall/clean) when there are a lot of ports installed. Before > modular xorg, 400 ports installed was a lot. 700 now is not surprising. > > Some profiling looking for areas which could benefit from speed > optimization would be useful. That may have already been done but not > publicized.
There were some modifications added to the ports tree earlier this year (I think it was) that resulted in some quite significant speedups when installing/deinstalling ports. There were quite a bit of discussions about it at the time at this list (or possibly one of the other freebsd- lists.) -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
