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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:16:29 +0000
From:      Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com>
To:        Dag-Erling =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: (2517) the error message when removing a dependency of a vital package is uninformative
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:26:59 +0100
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> writes:
> > Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > In fact the pkg(8) man page is missing the new "sets" command.
> > > there is no "sets" command.
> > Hmm, that's not what I see:
> 
> There is no sets command.  Type `pkg help sets` and you will understand.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org

$ pkg help sets
`sets` is an alias to `info -d -C -x '^FreeBSD-set-'`

OK thanks for the clarification. So it's an internal alias that
masquerades like a pkg command.


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