Re: New PKGBASE Alias Proposal

vermaden wrote in <hpdxniuoomlvygctxwoo@rxaa>:
> After messing a little with PKGBASE this one could be handy:
> 
> root@pkgbase:~ # grep -e '^ALIAS' -e sets -e '^}' /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> ALIAS {
>     sets = "info -d -C -x '^FreeBSD-set-'";
> }

you should submit this as a pkg(8) issue at
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg.

that said, i'm not sure this is generally useful enough to warrant an
inclusion in pkg.conf by default.  i am wondering about writing a
pkgset(8) tool to handle sets, which would also help to work around
pkg's unhelpful behaviour when removing a dependency of a vital package.