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Date:      19 Jan 2025 21:26:50 -0500
From:      "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        paulbeard@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: querying a pkg you don't have installed?
Message-ID:  <20250120022651.859F7B84B313@ary.local>
In-Reply-To: <CAMtcK2pFY6Zn4kBFgzjkGcrL11eRX7q0cJDKWZegfByJhLLF6Q@mail.gmail.com>
References:   <CAMtcK2pFY6Zn4kBFgzjkGcrL11eRX7q0cJDKWZegfByJhLLF6Q@mail.gmail.com>

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It appears that paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> said:
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>I want to ask a question of the maintainer of a package I don't have
>installed (and can't until I get an answer to my question). Is that
>possible with pkg query?

$ pkg rquery %m foop

will return the email address of the maintainer of the foop package.

Please keep in mind that package maintainers are busy volunteers so
don't ask questions that you could have find the answers to in other
ways, e.g., looking at the source code of the port.

R's,
John



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