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Subject: Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially
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In article <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407251459370.72188@wonkity.com> you write:

>Writing "an article" is hard.  Writing a small section on how deleting 
>packages is different between pkg and, say, apt, is much easier.  The 
>scope is known.

Indeed, it's pretty trivial.

I think the sort of article Craig was looking for was more on the
order of

	apt command		pkg command
	apt-get update		pkg update (*1)
	...			...

(*1) Explanation of differences between how apt behaves and how pkg
behaves.

The set of common apt operations is pretty well-known, and most of
them have direct pkg(8) equivalents.

-GAWollman