From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 22 10:53:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481BA16A4CE for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:53:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3693343D1F for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:53:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 22 Jan 2005 10:53:08 -0000 Received: from p3EE26C32.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) (62.226.108.50) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 22 Jan 2005 11:53:08 +0100 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from [192.168.8.4] (kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0MAqf0Z088792 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:52:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Message-ID: <41F23075.2000404@gmx.net> Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:52:37 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Leidinger References: <20050121205202.4092fc5a@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050122090430.GA850@galgenberg.net> <20050122111153.557ff8da@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20050122111153.557ff8da@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does everybody switch to dynamic plists? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:53:12 -0000 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. :-) -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org