Re: pkgsrc performance

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Joachim König wrote:

> Could the buildlink3.mk including not be combined with the simplification
> of the DEPENDS variable format as dicussed in the
> "enforcing pkgsrc/category/$PKGBASE" thread?
> 
> E.g. the bmake infrastructure on seeing a simple "category/pkgname"
> dependency could check if a buildlink3.mk file exists there and load
> it (if it has not yet been loaded) etc.

If I understand you correctly, this doesn't need to be done that way. 
For example, some DEPENDS are needed for use at run time of a related 
tool. While a buildlink3.mk may be needed at build-time. So automatically 
using the buildlink3.mk system may bring in more not needed build work.

> For me, the culprit is that instead
> of declaring the dependency and later evaluating/checking all the
> dependencies,
> the corresponding buildlink3.mk is immediately included with ".include".
> Can't we decouple that?