portupgrade O(n^m)?

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Coleman Kane wrote:

> On 2/15/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Quoting Olivier Warin <daffy at xview.net> (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007
>> 19:54:09 +0100):
>> 
>> > This issue is not only related to portupgrade, pkg_add a new port takes
>> > far too long now... and make index each time I upgrade my ports is
>> > awfull too.
>> 
>> Regarding "make index": try "make fetchindex" right after the cvsup.
>> IT may not be up to the point with the cvsupped stuff, but not far off.
>> 
>> Bye,
>> Alexander.
>
>
>
> I don't think we who use the modular X.org tree can do this since a number
> of the ports won't be properly registered in the file (or am I off-base
> here?).
> --
> Coleman

Heh, that is a serious problem considering that modular Xorg would probably at max add about 100 ~ 150~some packages to the portage tree, depending on how things are done.

-Garrett