Hello, I'd like to ask some specific areas of the pkg_add tools. 1. Why Perl instead of C? Perl is comparatively slow, and I think this limits who can contribute to the source code. How many developers in OpenBSD are actively doing any review of the pkg_add tools code? Would there be any interest in porting pkgsrc or pkgng from another BSD, or rewriting it in C?
2. Why no package database file? Other package managers like apt-get can fetch a single file that has all the package versions/info in it. When I update my packages on OpenBSD Current, it is a very slow process. Each package must be individually checked for updates, rather than comparing a list of what I have to a single list of the newest versions. This makes doing updates very painful and I avoid doing it sometimes. 3. Why so many connections? When I tried to investigate why the update was so slow, I saw that pkg_add was making one HTTPS connection per package! Tools like wget from Linux can reuse a single connection for many downloads. Could this be added to pkg_add in OpenBSD? Thank you.
