Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 15:48:08 +0200 From: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> To: 'Steve Price' <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at> Cc: 'Luigi Rizzo' <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C1100276179633@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Price [SMTP:sprice@hiwaay.net] > Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 3:41 PM > To: Ladavac Marino > Cc: 'Luigi Rizzo'; freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: a two-level port system? (fwd) > > You can add me to that list. I'm pretty sure Simokawa-san keeps > the whole tree around, Justin Seger is another, everyone that I've > ever setup a FreeBSD box for, and the list goes on. > > The point being that quite a number of people will find it useful > to have all the ports on their box for any number of reasons besides > the fact that they build packages. IMHO any proposed solution > that increases the pain of doing so will probably meet with some > resistance. But don't let that discourage you. Code it up and I > have a couple of boxes I'll give it a whirl on. :-) [ML] So you actually do BUILD all the ports? In that case I would value your opinion on speed disadvantages of the current system. Namely, I build only the ports I need, and I browse pretty often through the DESC files in order to see if I can use something, which is slow because DESC's are rather deep. One single ports.pseudoshar file would be great for this purpose, but not easily manageable. Multiple (pseudo)shars are hardly better than the current system, except that they bust the NAMI cache somewhat less. I'll go for the unoptimized (read: not sorted) shar files tonight. /Marino > -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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