Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:01:51 -0700 From: Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: generate top-level pkg install list? Message-ID: <aca3b98a-f148-07ad-825e-fd1b98d96e9f@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <20210128164229.4562e939194ddf06938f0fc3@sohara.org> References: <23d9f371-b023-6647-4a63-b9e4a9e6ca61@dreamchaser.org> <14a2618-5268-fa37-8a21-76dcd0a9bab4@fledge.watson.org> <e70febe9-7bbe-9eb6-edad-6b3a9cc58140@dreamchaser.org> <CAN6yY1sLTjA9Pf3uLadYiYK3_QsUPYceQY56mEKUpahNXb%2BQ2Q@mail.gmail.com> <4bbf2f4f-a187-78af-f875-6e03b39f54f6@dreamchaser.org> <20210128164229.4562e939194ddf06938f0fc3@sohara.org>
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>> wouldn't "pkg help" would be a better place, and a modification of the man >> page to indicate the aliases don't show up in the individual "pkg help >> <cmd>" results? > > There is pkg alias -l to list the aliases. The problem with this is that aliases are generally thought of as something the user adds to make something more convenient for themselves. Or at least that's how I've come to view them. I don't expect anything to come with built in aliases that are effectively part of the packaged commands. Once you know it's what you want, sure, it's easy. But in this case you have to know what you don't know. That doesn't compute. The obvious need for this sort of information is the examples in the tar man page. I suspect many besides me have had to reference the example tar -cf - -C <srcdir> . | tar -xpf - -C <destdir> to move file hierarchies. Gary
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