Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

[Ivan Voras]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> I have been thinking a lot about looking for speed increases for "make
> index" and pkg_version and things like that.  So for example, in
> pkg_version, it calls "make -V PKGNAME" for every installed package. Now
> "make -V PKGNAME" should be a speedy operation, but the make has to load
> in and analyze bsd.port.mk, a quite complicated file with about 200,000
> characters in it, when all it is needing to do is to figure out the
> value of the variable PKGNAME.

As long as far-out ideas are being discussed, how about caching such
information (including dependenices) in a file (I'd call it a database
but then I'd had to start a holy war :) ) so it's calculated only once,
preferably on the portsnap / cvsup servers and not at the end-user?

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