Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports"

From: Graham Perrin <grahamperrin_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:11:30 UTC
On 20/08/2025 15:31, Gleb Popov wrote:
> … if we're going full bikeshedding mode then I think that repos
> should be named after what they represent rather than from what they are built.
> That is,
> - FreeBSD packages
> - FreeBSD base packages
> - FreeBSD kernel modules
>
> All right, maybe "FreeBSD packages" looks like a superset of the
> latter two, so we can call it "FreeBSD main packages", which aligns
> nicely with "FreeBSD quarterly packages".
>
> …


I think, 'packages' in the name of any package repo will be superfluous.

The configuration file is for use with pkg tools; we have 'pkg' in the 
url within the file; and 'pkg' in the path to the file.