Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu> (Wed, 16 May 2007 16:01:56 -0500):
>
>   
>> If I get some positive feedback on this one, I'll submit a PR.  You can 
>> try it out by typing "make actual-package-depends" as opposed to "make 
>> package-depends."
>>     
>
> Did you my chance also had a look how to speed up ALL-DEPENDS-LIST? It
> is used in clean-depends. And on my system it is slow (nearly 6 minutes
> for gnome2) too. As portupgrade cleans before and after updating a
> port, optimizing this may also be beneficial.
>
> Maybe first trying to construct all dependencies of the installed ports
> like in actual-package-depends and then the remaining ones like it is
> done currently...
>
> Bye,
> Alexander.
>   

I don't use "make clean" preferring a variant of "find /usr/ports -name 
work -exec rm -rf {} \;".