port install efficiency issue

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Darren Weber wrote:

>
> 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!

I presume because you say "decent package management system" you  
realize apt is not flawless. In my experience, all systems cause  
moments of frustration.

Darren, thanks for reporting a possible bug.


//Brad