Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[LoN]Kamikaze LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de
Sat May 12 17:11:46 UTC 2007


RW wrote:
> On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:32:38 +0200
> "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze at gmx.de> 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.
> 
> Does that matter all that much when there are ports that take
> several hours to build?
> 
> As I see it the important figure is the total time taken to register
> all installed ports, divided by the total time to download, build and
> install them. As long as that figure remains small it doesn't really
> matter that small ports install inefficiently.


My guess is that registering takes about 15% of the total upgrade time. Is that a small figure?


More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list