portupgrade O(n^m)?

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Florent Thoumie wrote:

> youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Coleman Kane wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/15/07, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Quoting Olivier Warin <daffy at xview.net> (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007
>>>> 19:54:09 +0100):
>>>>
>>>>> This issue is not only related to portupgrade, pkg_add a new port
>>>> takes
>>>>> far too long now... and make index each time I upgrade my ports is
>>>>> awfull too.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding "make index": try "make fetchindex" right after the cvsup.
>>>> IT may not be up to the point with the cvsupped stuff, but not far off.
>>>>
>>>> Bye,
>>>> Alexander.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't think we who use the modular X.org tree can do this since a
>>> number
>>> of the ports won't be properly registered in the file (or am I off-base
>>> here?).
>>> --
>>> Coleman
>>
>> Heh, that is a serious problem considering that modular Xorg would
>> probably at max add about 100 ~ 150~some packages to the portage tree,
>> depending on how things are done.
>
> Yeah, I propose we just stay with X.org 6.9.0.
>
> PS: This is "ports tree" really, not "portage tree".
>
> --
> Florent Thoumie
> flz at FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD Committer

Yes, you're right (about the PS). That was a silly misphrase on my part..

Just curious though: why stay with Xorg 6.9?
-Garrett