zandijk@cs.utwente.nl (Reinoud Zandijk) writes:
>2) Would it be possible for pkgsrc packages to attempt to fetch the
>precompiled binary's first (for the relevant architecture) before trying
>to fetch the sources? Could be an option ?? Since this automatically
>becomes recursive, significant compilationtime savings can be archieved!

The problem with that is that it doesn't guarantee that the binary packages
have been built with the options set in /etc/mk.conf, which I find rather
important.

>(Yes, I do have a slow computer ;-))

I do have slow computers to.  Fortunately they build packages while I do
other things.
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