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On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 23:51:48 -0500 (CDT), Mark Linimon
<linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> When I looked at it, it seemed to me that it relied on an up-to-date
> INDEX file.  If so, the very first thing that would need to be added
> is a way to fetch the current one :-)
> 
> mcl
What about installing portindex? It builds and up-to-date INDEX in an
incremental way very fast.

Jiawei