Slow dependency computation

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Dan Ports wrote:
> 
> I see that mportdepends stops searching recursively when it hits a port
> that's already installed. Any reason it can't do the same when it hits
> an uninstalled dependency it's already seen?

Probably the only reason is that no one implemented it yet (and maybe you are the first person to notice that it's an issue).

I imagine a patch to improve this behavior would get committed eagerly :)
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