calculation time

[John B. Brown]

On 10/18/10 12:21 PM, John B. Brown wrote:
> Dear Folk,
>
> The process "---> Computing dependencies for texlive" has so far taken
> over thirty-six minutes, and counting, with no evidence of any fetching
> or compiling or what have you. Is this an excessive time for an install
> process?
>
> My command was;
>
> "jbb at pinball:~
> (11): % sudo port install texlive +full
> ---> Computing dependencies for texlive"
>

	Apparently not. The thing started running screen output at 40 minutes 
six seconds, immediately after I finished sending off the original e-mail.

	Shalom,

	John B. Brown.
	[jbb at vcn.com]
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