Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:17:52 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: how to make pkg ignore some dependencies? Message-ID: <CAPmsJLBFpWJwqUBv0FuO1o5xYrMRfissBiRZhdaGiB28Kb3Y1w@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello All, Hope that everyone is doing well today. Lately, I have been working with various packages from the FreeBSD 12.1 package system and noticed something interesting. I can do "pkg install xorg-minimal" which installs about 63 packages and have noticed that if I do a "pkg fetch -d -o /some/path xorg-minimal" then I can get all of the packages downloaded. Then, when I look through all of the download packages, I can notice that some of them are not truly required for a minimal installation of Xorg. (i.e. llvm80, py37, perl, etc..) I also notice that the "xorg-minimal.txz" package, itself, is really just a small meta-package in this case and am trying to determine where it lists the dependencies that make up the 63 packages that it wants to download. With this in mind, I would like to find out if there are some settings that can be used with the "pkg" command such that I can tell it to leave out some of the packages that it wants to download and install? Or, is there some place that I can find out how the xorg-minimal package is set up so that I can create maybe a new package called "xorg-ultra" or something that leaves out the unnecessary packages? I am looking at freshports to see if that helps also, but still investigating all of this. Cheers, Lonnie
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