Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Kris Kennaway]

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.

> > Kris
> > 
> > P.S. Please wrap your lines so your emails may be easily read
> 
> Hope it works, now.

Thanks

Kris
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