Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:16:24 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: "rizzo@rizzo.eng.br" <rizzo@rizzo.eng.br>, "Freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <Freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Issues with packages lacking fully compiled dependencies. Message-ID: <86ldf7vy53.fsf@ltc.des.dev> In-Reply-To: <38A836CD-434C-48B3-8E53-376846AC8061@punkt.de> (Patrick M. Hausen's message of "Wed, 1 Apr 2026 08:29:06 %2B0000") References: <89a1ddea697ce9b5664a8c92dbd01fcf@rizzo.eng.br> <86tstvw0l0.fsf@ltc.des.dev> <38A836CD-434C-48B3-8E53-376846AC8061@punkt.de>
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"Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > What makes xfce4-desktop “mandatory”? If it does not exist in the > > package repository, and you did not explicitly list it on the command > > line, how do you expect pkg to know that you wanted to install it? > xfce4 Meta-port for the Xfce Desktop Environment They didn't ask for xfce4, they asked for xfce4*. If xfce4-desktop does not exist then neither does xfce4. Furthermore, `pkg install -g xorg* -g xfce4*` is a bad idea even if nothing is missing because: - it will install packages you don't need which just happen to match either glob, and - it will mark all the packages that match either glob as explicitly installed, which renders autoremove useless. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.orghome | help
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