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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2007 18:04:55 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports
Message-ID:  <20070529080455.GM1161@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070527231254.D0C325B5E@mail.bitblocks.com>
References:  <4659EF80.70100@math.missouri.edu> <20070527231254.D0C325B5E@mail.bitblocks.com>

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On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
>Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long
>felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex
>Mk/*.mk what is is needed is a ports server and a thin CLI
>frontend to it.

I don't believe this is practical.  Both package names and
port dependencies depend on the options that are selected as
well as what other ports are already installed.  A centralised
ports server is not going to have access to this information.

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Peter Jeremy

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