speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au> writes:
> On Sat, 2006-Jan-21 14:30:57 -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > Yes, but portupgrade and friends already do most of that, so they can
> > upgrade stuff "in order".
> Actually, they rely on there being an up-to-date INDEX file and build
> their own dependency database from that.

porteasy doesn't; it parses the Makefile to attempt to detect master /
slave relationships, then uses make -V to obtain fetch / build / lib /
run dependencies.  Replacing make with a specialized tool with a more
expressive syntax would make this much easier, and much faster.

DES
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