calculation time

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 06:01, Rainer Müller wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:50:33 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On my 2.2-GHz MacBook Pro, it took only about 15 seconds to go from
>> "Computing dependencies for texlive" to "Dependencies to be installed"
>> and "Fetching" the first needed dependency. Granted I do already have
>> many of the dependencies installed, but the time to compute the
>> dependencies should still be comparable.
> 
> The computation is cut short if a dependency is already installed. No recursion would take place on such a port any more, so I don't think that would be comparable to a clean installation.

Ah, ok, I didn't realize. I'm glad it does that. But that explains why mine was somewhat faster.