texlive install scripts are unbearably slow

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%mnx.io@localhost>]

Hi,

This has bugged me for a while.  I spend quite a bit of time on pkgsrc 
performance to make it as fast as possible, but I'm told there's no fix 
for the fact that texlive-collection-all (a meta package that literally 
only runs pkg_add) takes nearly 3 hours to build simply due to the 
texlive install scripts rebuilding various databases.

Is there really nothing we can do to solve this?  I don't know tex at 
all, and don't know why these can't be provided by individual packages 
and combined at install time, or some other caching mechanism.

If someone can point me to a potential solution I'm more than happy to 
work on it.

Cheers,

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