On one of my systems, 10.5 PPC, things are taking a long time when uninstalling a port - like 4-5 minutes of heavy tcl interpreter use.
The registry.db is pretty huge: $ ls -la total 1286264 drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 21 Jun 11:06 . drwxr-xr-x@ 15 root admin 510 18 Dec 2018 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 0 21 Jun 10:59 .registry.lock -rw-rw-r-- 1 root admin 0 1 Oct 2015 .turd_MacPorts drwxr-xr-x 2954 root admin 100436 21 Jun 10:59 portfiles drwxr-xr-x 185 root admin 6290 13 Jun 19:51 portgroups -rw-r--r-- 1 root admin 658564096 21 Jun 11:06 registry.db As you can see, this install has been going along for 5 years, so I guess some bitrot could occur. I’m sure I could blow out the installation and start fresh, but that’s not terribly trivial on 10.5 PPC with no functional buildbot. Is there something else I can do to put that registry.db on a diet? Thanks, Ken
