Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:52:37 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists? Message-ID: <41F23075.2000404@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20050122111153.557ff8da@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <20050121205202.4092fc5a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050122090430.GA850@galgenberg.net> <20050122111153.557ff8da@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> BTW.: today we have modems which are a lot faster than in the past days.
> And AFAIK nobody complained about the time required to update the ports
> collection (yes, the collection is larger now) in those days. We don't
> have that much ports with a very large plist, and major updates to them
> don't happen very frequently. I expect the release-tagging of the ports
> collection to be more expensive.
Whoever chooses to suffer downloading the source tarballs with a modem/ISDN
connection won't complain about a kilobyte or two worth of pkg-plist. :-)
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