Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:40:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de>
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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. Kris P.S. Please wrap your lines so your emails may be easily read
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