I do believe they're talking about outsourcing the build process and distributing amongst resources. Like a hive or a chain where distributed systems would be used to build pieces (of the software) and collaborate back (which does have potential to be a great resource.) But, the Poudriere system does not support this currently. Perhaps in the future?
On May 27, 2026 4:33:58 AM UTC, Kurt Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi! > >> > The ports tree is a dependency tree. To target the fastest way for >> > upgrades would require to rebuild if a dependency changes >> > and to optimise the longest path, compile-time-wise. > >> I don't think I articulated what I meant thoroughly. >> By distributed I mean something like folding@home where a user >> would get a slice of work and process/upload it. > >Again, it's a dependency tree. You can not parallelize more >than a certain number, because nodes would have to wait for other nodes >to finish before they can work. So one has to reduce >the dependencies and shorten the longest path. > >-- >[email protected] +49 171 3101372 Now what ? > Regards, Janky Jay, III
