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On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 7:17=E2=80=AFPM Kevin Williams wrot= e: > pkg query is for currently-installed packages. Try pkg rquery and consult > the manpages pkg(8) and pkg-rquery(8). None of those commands contain a w= ay > to directly message the package maintainer. > > What is the package and what is your question? pkg rquery might be able t= o > give you the answer. > On 1/18/25 18:20, paul beard wrote: > > 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? > > -- > Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ > > --=20 Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/ --00000000000039402a062c076385 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
# pkg rquery %m cacti
m.muenz@gmail.com

Perfect, just what I neede= d.=C2=A0

On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 7:17=E2=80=AFPM= Kevin Williams <kevin@k9w.org> = wrote:
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pkg query is for currently-installed packages. Try pkg rquery and consult the manpages pkg(8) and pkg-rquery(8). None of those commands contain a way to directly message the package maintainer.

What is the package and what is your question? pkg rquery might be able to give you the answer.

On 1/18/25 18:20, paul beard wrote:
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