Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:38:00 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg-alias(8) (was: pkg prime-origins is not a separate command) Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.2111281134390.65230@bucksport.safeport.com>
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On Mon, 22 Nov 2021, Graham Perrin wrote: > On 21/11/2021 04:43, Doug Denault wrote: > > > secret > > I discovered aliases through FreeBSD Forums, but aliases are not secret. > <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=8&manpath=Ports#SEE_ALSO>; > SEE ALSO pkg-alias(8) > Thanks for your reply. I had never, and probably would have never run 'help alias'. IMO there are three options there that give different views if your question is what did someone (maybe me) install to get this set of packages. Some of the other seem useful to you are building a package or other more esoteric uses for pkg. It's journalism 101 if you want to publish something that [almost] no one will read you: put it in paragraph 3 or later, or you put it in a different section. Not that that's the intent here, but it is the effective result. First and foremost for me, these options are not aliases. Alias has a meaning in Unix and this isn't it, depending on what is means. I'm happy to have found the prime-list option and happier yet that you pointed me to other potentially useful options. I just think how to list the base packages should obvious. _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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