Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Garrett Cooper]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 19 May 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>
>>     My lord.. now I see what everyone means in terms of taking a long 
>> time to update the ports / package databases. If you use portsnap, it 
>> doesn't take a long time. However, if you use csup/cvsup, it appears 
>> to take a long time running make and ruby (primarily disk I/O), to 
>> update all of the databases. It took approximately 3-5 minutes to 
>> complete on a P4 3.0 GHz, so I'd hate to see how long it takes to 
>> finish on a slower machine =\...
>>     Maybe this is where Stephen's revisions to pkg_add and 
>> bsd.ports.mk would come in handy.
>> -Garrett
> 
> I would love to help, but I'm a plain vanilla "make install" person, and 
> I haven't yet learned all these fancy programs like portinstall.
> 
> What specific program are you refering to that takes so long to execute? 
> Assume that I have no experience with using these tools.  Then I will 
> see if I can make that faster too.  (But my first guess is that I won't 
> be able to.)

Don't try. portupgrade is maintained by someone else, and the scripts 
are a mess.

If someone could have improved the scripts, they would have tried a 
while ago..

-Garrett