[Bug 296467] pkg upgrade installs unrelated, unnecessary other packages

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296467

--- Comment #12 from wbe@psr.com ---
(In reply to Mark Millard from comment #11)
> Both notations are valid in /bin/sh .
Ah, OK.  Sorry I didn't recognize that.  root on that system uses csh, and it
complained about (...) and $(...).

> Sorry for the various typos.
Not a problem.  :-)

>> "You're welcom[e] to keep this open ...":
> You can close it at will.
Yes, but I don't want to close it yet if there's value in keeping it open a
little longer.  It's FreeBSD folks that will say whether pkg's handling of this
issue is something they want to look into.

> While various pkg commands by default do an implicit "pkg update" to get
> the information about the upstream status of the upstream repository, if
> such a pkg update for the local repository (explicit or implicit) does not
> happen, pkg then works based on the local possibly-out-of-date information
> when dealing with that specific local repository.
Indeed, but I so dislike "silent" updates, where I don't get to see any of the
updating output, that happens in those cases that I always run "pkg update"
explicitly before doing pkg anything else, so I don't think differing updates
has been an issue here.

Back when FreeBSD-ports was .../quarterly and FreeBSD was .../latest, there
certainly were cases where one had an update and the other did not.  Still, it
seems to me that pkg probably ought to keep the dependencies repo-specific:
repo1:foo  wasn't built with repo2:bar as its dependency, and combinations like
that might have problems.  Currently, pkg doesn't appear to be adequately
careful about that.

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