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From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: pkgdb vs modular xorg
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Phillip Neumann wrote:
> This problem is mostly visible when having Gnome/xorg modular installed,
> as if so, a buch of ports are getting installed.
> 
> I think the ports/package managment in FreeBSD is not very scalable in
> this sense. This has nothing to do with xorg.
> 
> Maybe this motivates some change in the port system. Working with
> ~20'000 software is not very easy.

I reported this problem on ports@ about a week ago.  The recent change
to portupgrade drastically slowed down pkgdb.  My post even included a
hackaround.  sem@ said he'd investigate, but never got around to it, I
guess.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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