Lots of installed ports show "succeeds index"

[Konstantin Belousov]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 09:57:49AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 24/07/2014 18:19, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > If 'pkg version' only took a few seconds for you, I suspect  you had very
> > few ports installed. It has always taken minutes for me.
> > 
> > That said, '-P' is much slower than the old default, even though it is
> > doing as close as possible to the same thing.
> 
> The reason that the -P check is slower is because it now checks not just
> for the presence of the port directory, but also that the port is hooked
> up to the ports tree.  See
> 
> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/commit/2c84533f4d7291c26fe826a67217fb3c3ab446a5
> 
> So you've got a choice here: slow and unreliable versus even slower, but
> correct.  Unfortunately the only way to extract version information from
> the ports involves running make(1) and that is intrinsically slow.

Am I right that it checks for the presence of a port in the <category>
directory, but possible absence of the same port in the <category>/Makefile ?
If yes, can this behaviour made optional ?
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