On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 02:52:07PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > >
> > > The speed of the processor is less important than the speed of the
> > > drive. This process is positively I/O bound.
> > regardless of CPU speed or drive speed, 5 hours for this is ridiculous IMHO.
> > is this process doing something along the same lines of the recursive
> > depends stuff talked about lately on tech-pkg? there has to be some way to
> > make it work and make it usable... I know I personally won't use `make
> > search' if generating its index takes nearly that long, and I can't imagine
> > anybody else wants to wait hours for make search when they could pipe find
> > through perl and hunt for the search string on their own...
> >
> or just grep something /usr/src/pkgsrc/*/*/pkg/DESCR

You can use pkglocate, located in the root of pkgsrc, to accomplish much
the same thing, but which has more bells and whistles, and can do fuzzy
matching if glimpse is installed. It can also search through PLISTs.

Regards,
Alistair