Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:43:15 -0500 From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps Message-ID: <20070720194315.GA8179@soaustin.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707201240020.29849@hymn07.u.washington.edu> References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707201239170.29849@hymn07.u.washington.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0707201240020.29849@hymn07.u.washington.edu>
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 12:40:02PM -0700, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > >> the INDEX files -- so many that I think that items common to both > >> build_deps and run_deps should be isolated and put into a new category > >> called 'common_deps': > > > >How will this benefit us? > > > >Doug > > Reduce amount of processed text. If you read the log I posted there are a > large number of what I refer to as 'excess characters'. These are the > duplicate characters in both BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS. IMHO the change in file format (and resulting POLA problems) outweighs the benefits of the faster scan. I'd rather see us audit the ports and try to eliminate unneeded entries in each. mcl
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