Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:31:40 +0200 From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port system "problems" Message-ID: <4FE9817C.7020905@netfence.it> In-Reply-To: <4FE97AE1.9080109@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4FE8E4A4.9070507@gmail.com> <20120626065732.GH41054@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20120626092645.Horde.HytQbVNNcXdP6WQ1aMtjoMA@webmail.df.eu> <4FE96BA0.6040005@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4FE97008.2060501@netfence.it> <4FE97AE1.9080109@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 06/26/12 11:03, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Yes, it will multiply the number of ports. By three is about right, > given that most ports will only have port-docs and port-examples > sub-ports. However, first of all, you are assuming that the effort > required to install each of those sub-ports is the same as it is to > install a single port now. That is simply not the case. Not exactly. I still didn't get the details, so I might speak nonsense, however... The "effort" will be 3x processing time for portupgrade (or whatever) to update the package database 3 times as much as before. I remember the big X.org split up: going from a few ports to tens of them slowed down an installation/upgrade process by an order of magnitude (or even more). > A typical example would involve client-server apps -- so mysqlNN-server > becomes a sub-port of mysqlNN-client. You get to check a box saying > 'install the server as well as the client' when you go to install > mysqlNN. Similarly all those php5-XYZ modules become sub-ports of > lang/php5. We had this in the past: a php-extension port with options to include each extension or leave it out. Each time we needed to add a missing extension, we needed to reconfigure this port and rebuild all. Now we have each extension in its own port and I think it's much better. I just hope we don't get back to that. What I anticipate will often happen is installing some port, finding out that some part is missing, install the missing part, repeat that several times. I just hope I'm wrong (and again, it is at all possible that I am wrong here). bye & Thanks av.
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