Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:33:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "\[LoN\]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <20070512133054.B5588@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> <4645FF71.60100@gmx.de> <20070512175824.GA23103@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sat, 12 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. I've done a little poking around. As of right now, I think that the registering takes a huge amount of time inside of a function called "sortdeps" which may be found in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/deps.c. Stephen
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