* vodka@intoxicate.us (vodka@intoxicate.us) wrote:
> 
> > I'd try a make search for a package to do it, but rebuilding INDEX
> > takes days.... :(
> 
> That brings up another question, why does make search key=something take so
> long?  I have a fairly fast machine and doing make search takes almost an
> hour.  Does anyone know why?

Because it's slow and broken. I wonder why we couldn't put INDEX in the
pkgsrc cvs tree, like FreeBSD does with their ports tree. If one person 
with a fast machine can just regularily build INDEX and just commit it, 
it would be just grand.

Cheers,
Emiel
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