From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 17:40:12 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF7D16A404 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 17:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41B1D13C457 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 17:40:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA8541A3C1A; Sat, 12 May 2007 10:40:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6C954513BC; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:40:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:40:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" Message-ID: <20070512174011.GA22526@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 17:40:12 -0000 On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 12:32:38PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze 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. I think that before you abandon something you should first understand it. Figure out what is taking so long to register the port and then work out whether it can be optimized. Kris P.S. Please wrap your lines so your emails may be easily read