Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:50:35 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Ade Lovett <ade@freebsd.org>, Steven Kreuzer <stevenkreuzer@yahoo.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limitations of Ports System Message-ID: <20071213205035.GA72545@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20071213111050.O6078@wonkity.com> References: <475F7390.9090509@gmail.com> <1022BEDA-8641-4686-AB1A-3FE2D688F47F@FreeBSD.org> <475FAC1F.1010401@gmail.com> <19341C6C-BF3A-4DFD-B8DF-87F4E92B0335@FreeBSD.org> <0F330142-A3CA-4E6E-84BD-FDE55A8E3AEE@yahoo.com> <20071213111050.O6078@wonkity.com>
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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 ertr1013@student.uu.se
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