Re: Looking for speed increases in "make index" and pkg_version for ports

On 2007-May-27 16:12:54 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Given the size and complexity of the port system I have long
felt that rather than do everything via more and more complex
Mk/*.mk what is is needed is a ports server and a thin CLI
frontend to it.

I don't believe this is practical. Both package names and
port dependencies depend on the options that are selected as
well as what other ports are already installed. A centralised
ports server is not going to have access to this information.

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Peter Jeremy

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