Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:38:00 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Phillip Neumann <phillip@sofsis.cl> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkgdb vs modular xorg Message-ID: <457DB398.4020605@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1165864770.1177.34.camel@localhost> References: <20061211180621.GA68824@cserv65.csub.edu> <457DAAE7.6030206@voicenet.com> <1165864770.1177.34.camel@localhost>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFfbOXb2iPiv4Uz4cRArlrAJ9lJgwFM+Ibf0l6GKMrkNidyGS7bACeL3zt 2vCVrDN2nUbOlZkEth2AtGk= =0eLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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