> >
> > The speed of the processor is less important than the speed of the
> > drive. This process is positively I/O bound.
> regardless of CPU speed or drive speed, 5 hours for this is ridiculous IMHO.
> is this process doing something along the same lines of the recursive
> depends stuff talked about lately on tech-pkg? there has to be some way to
> make it work and make it usable... I know I personally won't use `make
> search' if generating its index takes nearly that long, and I can't imagine
> anybody else wants to wait hours for make search when they could pipe find
> through perl and hunt for the search string on their own...
>
or just grep something /usr/src/pkgsrc/*/*/pkg/DESCR