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

In reply to: Graham Perrin : "Re: RFC: Renaming "FreeBSD" repo in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf to "FreeBSD-ports""
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From: Chris <portmaster_at_bsdforge.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 01:24:45 UTC

On 2025-08-20 10:49, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 20/08/2025 09:19, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
>> … I would like to have a separate file for each repository, …
> 
> For a long time, I did work with two files:
> 
> /etc/pkg/FreeBSD-base.conf
> 
> /etc/pkg/FreeBSD-ports.conf
> 
> – FreeBSD-ports.conf was a symlink to FreeBSD.conf, with FreeBSD-ports 
> (within the
> file) as the name for the repo.
> 
> I dropped the habit immediately after I discovered that a single file could
> specify multiple repos.
> 
> I prefer editing a single file, wherever possible.
> 
> I sometimes used uclcmd, <https://www.freshports.org/devel/uclcmd/>.
> 
> I typically aim for three repos in the one file:
> 
> FreeBSD-base
> FreeBSD-kmods
> FreeBSD-ports

I would like to see this too.

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