Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Thierry Thomas]

Le Sam 12 mai 07 à 19:40:11 +0200, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
 écrivait :
> 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.

Moreover, there are plans to revise /var/db/pkg structure: see
<http://wiki.freebsd.org/GarrettCooper>.
-- 
Th. Thomas.