Time to abandon recursive pulling of dependencies?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> OK chaps, this is what I came up with.  So for example, if I do "make 
> install" on /usr/ports/x11/xorg (having made all the dependencies), on 
> my computer it turns the pkg_create from taking about 4 minutes to the 
> blink of an eye.  Now people need to figure out how to speed up the 
> "make package-depends" in bsd.ports.mk, but that is beyond my abilities.
> 
> I really hope this works.  The prospect of modifying a piece of code 
> that is used by practically the whole FreeBSD community kind of scares 
> me, so I would appreciate some good testing.
> 
> Apply the patch http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/deps/ddd to 
> /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib.  I have also put the patch as an 
> attachment, but I don't know if the mail filters will take it out.
> 
> Stephen

I spoke too soon.  It is kind of buggy.  Sorry to have jumped the gun a bit.