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Date:      Fri, 31 Dec 2021 23:46:28 +0100
From:      "Dave Cottlehuber" <dch@skunkwerks.at>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Package naming conventions (?)
Message-ID:  <5c83b970-fe9e-4ee9-92e8-54efc8a28610@www.fastmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <34017.1640919003@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2021, at 03:50, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> (I am not aware of any easier way to generate such a list of the base =
names
> of all currently installed packages.  If I have just missed how to do =
that
> more easily, please let me know.)

Look through /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf for hidden gems.

I like =E2=80=98pkg prime-origins=E2=80=99 which lists the leaf package =
name without automatic derived dependencies:

www/firefox
ftp/curl

this is usually what I want to duplicate packages from box A on box B.

IIRC you can man pkg-query and even get json output these days.
Etc



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