Re: To be a new DFly commiter

[Michel Talon <talon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Jeremy C. Reed wrote:


> 
> By the way, OpenBSD's solution uses perl. 

Yes

> Pkgsrc doesn't depend on perl as 
> perl is not installed on some pkgsrc developers/users systems.

But i am told that this perl solution runs faster than the old pkg_tools of
J. Hubbard which says a lot about what is really important to get good
stuff. By the way, loading and interpreting the 4000 lines of bsd.port.mk
is for sure incredibly slow, but i doubt that scattering the content in
tons of files enhances speed - or readability. 

> 
>   Jeremy C. Reed