Linux subsystem requirement

From: Walter Parker <walterp_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 23:29:29 UTC
Hi,

A friend just had something different happen to his new FreeBSD box.
When he tries to install packages, pkg seems to want to install the
linux-compat-rl9 package with many of the packages that he is trying to
install.
This leads to a few questions:
How do you find which installed packages require the linux compatibility
package?
Is there a way to find this for packages in general?
Has FreeBSD made any changes to packages to increase the use of linux
compat?

If finding the packages that use/require linux compat isn't easy, how many
use it it and what are the common packages that use it?


Thank you,

Walter

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