Submitted: https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2543
Temat: Re: New PKGBASE Alias Proposal Data: 2025-10-17 12:28 Nadawca: "Lexi Winter" <[email protected]> Adresat: "vermaden" <[email protected]>; DW: [email protected]; [email protected]; > > > vermaden wrote in : >> After messing a little with PKGBASE this one could be handy: >> >> root@pkgbase:~ # grep -e '^ALIAS' -e sets -e '^}' /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf >> ALIAS { >> sets = "info -d -C -x '^FreeBSD-set-'"; >> } > > you should submit this as a pkg(8) issue at > https://github.com/freebsd/pkg. > > that said, i'm not sure this is generally useful enough to warrant an > inclusion in pkg.conf by default. i am wondering about writing a > pkgset(8) tool to handle sets, which would also help to work around > pkg's unhelpful behaviour when removing a dependency of a vital > package.
