Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:24:41 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, albert.shih@obspm.fr, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, bakul@bitblocks.com, nikola.lecic@anthesphoria.net Subject: Re: TeTeX and TeXLive Message-ID: <4765FA09.8060508@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20071217041040.GA32724@soaustin.net> References: <20071216.225955.111308887.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071216202200.51C4F5B2E@mail.bitblocks.com> <20071217.110245.36427121.hrs@allbsd.org> <20071217041040.GA32724@soaustin.net>
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Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:02:45AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: >> Do you think splitting it to small packages will be a big problem? > > That many ports would create a significant impact on the build systems, > especially, sparc64, which is not keeping up at all as it is. > > mcl What does the build system do? Does it go to each port one at a time and do a "make package && pkg_delete -a" or similar? If so, this would mean that the, for example, xorg-library port would be remade many, many times. If this is the case, perhaps there is some way this process could be streamlined. But I can see the potential difficulties.
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