Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:19:39 +0200 From: vermaden <vermaden@interia.pl> To: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New PKGBASE Alias Proposal Message-ID: <mqvzckmgpirgnfgmahse@mmcu> In-Reply-To: <aPIaSgff7lYs3pPF@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <hpdxniuoomlvygctxwoo@rxaa> <aPIaSgff7lYs3pPF@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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Submitted: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2543 Temat: Re: New PKGBASE Alias Proposal Data: 2025-10-17 12:28 Nadawca: "Lexi Winter" <ivy@freebsd.org> Adresat: "vermaden" <vermaden@interia.pl>; DW: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org; > > > vermaden wrote in : >> 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.help
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