On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 04:50:11PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:

> Dan Price wrote:
>
> > At a higher level-- how do I know what is a category versus what
> > is not a category?  How much work do you anticipate we will put
> > into the tools around knowing that "/" is a delimiter?  That is
> > to say, given "print/a2ps", would "pkg install a2ps" be expected
> > to work, assuming a2ps is unambiguous?

(As discussed at lunch, then yes, this should be possible already.)

> Which also brings up an interesting question, if the user specifies the 
> name of a category, does that allow them to install all the items in a 
> category?  For example, "pfexec pkg install gnome2/games" ?

Given that you can do the more explicit "gnome2/games/*", I think the
implicit form shouldn't be meaningful, at least for install.  Maybe for
list, but even then I'm not so sure.

Danek
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