port install efficiency issue

[Darren Weber]

What is up with port?  It just ran for about 15 mins to build a package that
is already installed.  If I were to work on the same damn thing, repeating
it all day, day after day, I would get the sack pretty quickly.  Just think
of the useless load on the network and the servers for all those futile
downloads, etc.  So tell me, why shouldn't I switch to fink?  At least
Debian has a decent package management system, geez!

$ sudo port install gettext
--->  Fetching gettext
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for gettext
--->  Extracting gettext
--->  Applying patches to gettext
--->  Configuring gettext
--->  Building gettext
--->  Staging gettext into destroot
--->  Installing gettext @0.17_4
Error: Target org.macports.install returned: Registry error: gettext @0.17_4
already registered as installed.  Please uninstall it first.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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