Re: pkgsrc scanning performance benchmarks

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 03:54:29PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:41:33AM -0600, John Marino wrote:
> > as an aside, I'm highly suspicious when I see PKG_INFO invoked just with a
> > scan.  I have a feeling most uses can be challenged, but I haven't even
> > begun the scratch the surface on any of this.
> 
> As I said, e.g. for gtk2, the x11 option affects the downwards
> depedendency tree. The pkg_info call tries to extract the current
> option, it doesn't distingiush between bulk build and manual invocation.

Looking around, it has gotten a lot worse since I last checked. We used
to have a couple of packages depending on this, now Freetype, GTK2, Perl
etc all pull this in. OK, no wonder that this is costing a lot more time
than it used to...

Joerg