Re: pkgfe

oooo, i quite like this!



-a

On Mon, 8 Jun 2026 at 02:32, Sulev-Madis Silber
<freebsd-hackers-freebsd-org952@ketas.si.pri.ee> wrote:
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> i'm currently in progress of putting pkgfe back into ports
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> that's my 20+ year old project for ports tui i created out of frustration of having to copy and paste things around a terminal
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> i think to this day we have no proper package search install delete ui. i think some barebones is in installer now?
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> anyway why not have more than one way, like unix!
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> however it's like effort to port this to poudriere+pkg use. to be honest it still includes features that only worked pre-pkgng times. i so far have used it with ports tree and portupgrade to this day
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> so what would anyone here think of this? even 20y ago i included features there that i didn't use personally but i thought others could fine useful like execute as root command prefix and so on
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> all the information below, complete with oldschool pages and questionable "version control" the 22 year old me created
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> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295922>
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> <http://ketas.si.pri.ee/pkgfe/>
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> <https://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/pkgfe/>
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> <https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/pkgfe/>
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