Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version
for ports
Peter Jeremy
peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Tue May 29 08:05:02 UTC 2007
On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com> wrote:
>Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long
>felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex
>Mk/*.mk what is is needed is a ports server and a thin CLI
>frontend to it.
I don't believe this is practical. Both package names and
port dependencies depend on the options that are selected as
well as what other ports are already installed. A centralised
ports server is not going to have access to this information.
--
Peter Jeremy
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