On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:51:40PM +0000, John Levon wrote: > Naively I expect 'pkg list' to list packages, 'pkg info' to give > information on packages, and 'pkg status' to give status on packages.
The design center is that each of these verbs operates on a package argument, but performs the same action on all packages if no argument is given. Thus "pkg list" lists a package. What does that mean? It lists the contents of the package (and the contents of all packages if no packages are specified). This is somewhat similar to the gentoo command "qlist". "pkg info" prints out information in a human-readable form for the listed packages. This is almost identical to the svr4 command, "pkginfo". "pkg status" does indeed print out the status of the packages. "pkg list" is not a verbose form of "pkg info". It's a more raw, unprocessed form. I'd buy that what is now "info -m" should be "list -m" instead, should that be confusing to anyone. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
