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Date:      Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:38:55 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=c3=b8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
Message-ID:  <56E7134F.9070106@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <86d1qwkgco.fsf@desk.des.no>
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On 3/14/16 12:29 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> writes:
>> Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/master/scripts/pkg_tree.sh
>> Can you publish it as a port? I know there is one written in Perl but
>> I like your sh without dependencies.
>=20
> It's not very useful, in my opinion.  The relationships between package=
s
> form a directed acyclic graph, not a tree, so pkg_tree.sh will either
> show too little (without -r) or far, far too much (with -r).  If you
> want to visualize the package graph, you can feed the output of 'pkg
> query "%n %dn"' into something like graphviz.  For other tasks, you are
> better off learning how to use 'pkg query' and possibly creating your
> own aliases or scripts.  It's not that difficult; feel free to ask for
> help.
>=20
> (Just for kicks, I tried running 'pkg_tree.sh -rn' on my desktop, which
> has 934 packages installed.  It's been running for ten minutes and has
> printed over 90,000 lines, with no end in sight.)
>=20

Yeah that's why I never included it by default. It can be interesting
sometimes but often is too noisy. I didn't want to encourage its use by
default vs pkg info or pkg query.


--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery



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