Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 19:11:19 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies? Message-ID: <4645F537.3000109@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20070512180402.7f6863bb@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <464597C6.3030406@gmx.de> <20070512180402.7f6863bb@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW wrote: > On Sat, 12 May 2007 12:32:38 +0200 > "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> wrote: > >> With Xorg updated to 7.2 many ports take much longer to register than >> to download, build and install. I think it's time to abandon the >> recursive pulling in of dependencies. > > Does that matter all that much when there are ports that take > several hours to build? > > As I see it the important figure is the total time taken to register > all installed ports, divided by the total time to download, build and > install them. As long as that figure remains small it doesn't really > matter that small ports install inefficiently. My guess is that registering takes about 15% of the total upgrade time. Is that a small figure?
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