extremely long "Cleaning" steps for ruby ports

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Dec 25 01:07:37 PST 2013


On Dec 25, 2013, at 03:03, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> There’s no pre-deactivate or post-deactivate block in rb19-ronn or in the ruby portgroup. On my system it took 5 seconds to uninstall rb19-ronn. I would guess it has to do with the size of your registry database (which would be related to how many ports you have installed and how many files they install), how fragmented it is, and the speed of the disk it’s on. My system has 1743 ports installed and registry.db is 166MiB, but I have a fast SSD. (OS X auto-defragments files, but only those smaller than 20MB.) But if other ports with the same number of files are uninstalling faster, I don’t know why ruby ports particularly would be uninstalling slowly for you.

Also, I have Spotlight configured not to index /opt/local.



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