Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:17:36 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org> To: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> Cc: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (2517) the error message when removing a dependency of a vital package is uninformative Message-ID: <86qzt2c9zj.fsf@ltc.des.dev> In-Reply-To: <20251210201629.b38dac931a98db3b0318e2b0@gmail.com> (Sad Clouds's message of "Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:16:29 %2B0000") References: <20251205122830.cb88058f193987b47a95a77c@gmail.com> <20251205134510.6fae5caf@dorfdsl.de> <20251205143119.441cc1bd8722345d074a4480@gmail.com> <16e766b9-f442-4cef-a991-c940f6b8182a@gmail.com> <20251207081139.7e2f65b97b4c089ac0add431@gmail.com> <aTkvIvFJHLf4WxUa@amaryllis.le-fay.org> <20251210153310.a4b1864ae2502787000b2369@gmail.com> <86zf7qcf3w.fsf@ltc.des.dev> <20251210201629.b38dac931a98db3b0318e2b0@gmail.com>
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Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > There is no sets command. Type `pkg help sets` and you will > > understand. > OK thanks for the clarification. So it's an internal alias that > masquerades like a pkg command. I don't know what you mean by “internal alias” or “masquerading”. It's an alias, which is a well-documented feature of pkg. Those of us whose machines have been upgraded incrementally for years or decades don't have it because it's a relatively recent addition and upgrading pkg does not update pkg.conf, where aliases are defined. If you want to know what it does, you type `pkg help sets`, see that it is an alias for `pkg info` with some arguments, and type `pkg help info` to learn what those arguments mean. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org
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