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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2014 19:10:02 -0600
From:      Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Do I want to switch to the new pkg(8) format?
Message-ID:  <549E06EA.20008@my.hennepintech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1412261740280.26354@wonkity.com>
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On 2014.12.26 18:48, Warren Block wrote:
> Actually, pkg_cutleaves is a port and should be okay to use.  The name 
> is due to it trying to look like the old pkg_* system programs. 
> Probably we should say "do not use /usr/sbin/pkg_*".
Unless it has been updated recently, pkg_cutleaves doesn't support pkgng. It
does some weird things that make it look like it kind of works, but it doesn't.
pkg-rmleaf, however, does work with pkgng.




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