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Re: make modular X11 the default on NetBSD



On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:26 AM, John Marino <netbsd%marino.st@localhost> 
wrote:
> On 5/16/2012 23:06, David Holland wrote:
>>
>> We(TM) also really need to do something to make the scan phase faster,
>> or at least to make it possible to cache the results.
>
>
> Absolutely.
> If the pkg version / revision of a specific package don't change between
> runs, can a cached result be used instead of performing a new scan?

If we avoid things like

  .include "EXPRESSION"

then yes, scan time can be significantly reduced.


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