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On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Ben Woods wrote:

>>>> "make missing | pkg install" to get the dependencies
>>>
>>> This command doesn't work for me with pkgng 1.4.4 (I don't think the
> pipe
>>> to pkg works):
>>>
>>> # make missing | pkg install
>>> Usage: pkg install [-AfInFMqRUy] [-r reponame] [-Cgix] <pkg-name> ...
>>> For more information see 'pkg help install'.
>>
>> The command is pseudo-code, I should have mentioned
>> this explicitely. :-)
>
>
> Well it can actually work if you use xargs:
> # make missing | xargs pkg install

Or backticks, probably:
# pkg install `make missing`