Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 11:28:26 +0100 From: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> To: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New PKGBASE Alias Proposal Message-ID: <aPIaSgff7lYs3pPF@amaryllis.le-fay.org> In-Reply-To: <hpdxniuoomlvygctxwoo@rxaa> References: <hpdxniuoomlvygctxwoo@rxaa>
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vermaden wrote in <hpdxniuoomlvygctxwoo@rxaa>:
> After messing a little with PKGBASE this one could be handy:
>
> root@pkgbase:~ # grep -e '^ALIAS' -e sets -e '^}' /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> ALIAS {
> sets = "info -d -C -x '^FreeBSD-set-'";
> }
you should submit this as a pkg(8) issue at
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg.
that said, i'm not sure this is generally useful enough to warrant an
inclusion in pkg.conf by default. i am wondering about writing a
pkgset(8) tool to handle sets, which would also help to work around
pkg's unhelpful behaviour when removing a dependency of a vital package.
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