From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 20 13:45:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 925BB1065674 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:45:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scheidell@freebsd.org) Received: from mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net [204.89.241.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5857A8FC1D for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net [10.70.1.253]) by mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5BE621C0D for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:45:29 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: SpammerTrap(r) VPS-1500 2.17 at mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net Received: from USBCTDC001.secnap.com (usbctdc001.secnap.com [10.70.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.secnap.com.ionspam.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29961621C05 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:45:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from MikeBook-Air.local (10.80.0.4) by USBCTDC001.secnap.com (10.70.1.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.0.722.0; Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:45:28 -0500 Message-ID: <4F196FFA.409@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:45:30 -0500 From: Michael Scheidell Organization: SECNAP Network Security Corp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; en-US; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/20110804 Thunderbird/3.1.12 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <4F177264.3090708@freebsd.org> <4F17DB1C.6080503@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4F193FD5.8070208@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4F1966C2.6090908@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4F196D21.50300@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4F196D21.50300@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: with the cvs history? trying to help INDEX builds. X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:45:30 -0000 On 1/20/12 8:33 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Actually, going back to the original question -- if this means not > having to .include in a reasonable number of cases, > then it might even be a win overall when generating an index. (At a > guess. Have to do some experiments to confirm that.) > > Cheers, > and in my dozens of days of ports pr/committing experience, I find/found, several ports that needed portlint fixed, and initially started to put in 
 to get things to work, only to find that 
the python stuff dragged in played fast and furious with 'eggs', which 
messed up pkg-plist, which left eggs all over the place.

Dragging in 
 when all you needed to do was drag in '.

Either case, from a pure theoretical case study, taking out one byte 
would speed things up.

(in theory, theory and practice are the same.. but in practice, it is 
often different)

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