Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat May 12 17:40:12 UTC 2007


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

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