Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2016 12:38:55 -0700 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: =?UTF-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=c3=b8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8) Message-ID: <56E7134F.9070106@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <86d1qwkgco.fsf@desk.des.no> References: <20160302235429.GD75641@FreeBSD.org> <20160308124016.GA70809@zxy.spb.ru> <20160308131847.GP1531@FreeBSD.org> <20160308151459.GB70809@zxy.spb.ru> <05A039B7-AA9A-47BB-B68E-89D9D5627D20@FreeBSD.org> <20160311120511.GN31877@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20160311131055.GO70809@zxy.spb.ru> <Pine.GSO.4.64.1603111144510.10158@sea.ntplx.net> <56E4F3E9.1070307@FreeBSD.org> <56E57661.2060601@quip.cz> <86d1qwkgco.fsf@desk.des.no>
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On 3/14/16 12:29 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> writes: >> Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> writes: >>> https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/blob/master/scripts/pkg_tree.sh >> Can you publish it as a port? I know there is one written in Perl but >> I like your sh without dependencies. >=20 > It's not very useful, in my opinion. The relationships between package= s > form a directed acyclic graph, not a tree, so pkg_tree.sh will either > show too little (without -r) or far, far too much (with -r). If you > want to visualize the package graph, you can feed the output of 'pkg > query "%n %dn"' into something like graphviz. For other tasks, you are > better off learning how to use 'pkg query' and possibly creating your > own aliases or scripts. It's not that difficult; feel free to ask for > help. >=20 > (Just for kicks, I tried running 'pkg_tree.sh -rn' on my desktop, which > has 934 packages installed. It's been running for ten minutes and has > printed over 90,000 lines, with no end in sight.) >=20 Yeah that's why I never included it by default. It can be interesting sometimes but often is too noisy. I didn't want to encourage its use by default vs pkg info or pkg query. --=20 Regards, Bryan Drewery
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