Slow dependency computation

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Fri Nov 5 09:08:53 PDT 2010


On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:02, Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> 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 :)

I saw some commits from Joshua after Dan's message got posted. Maybe it's already fixed?



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