Linux subsystem requirement
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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 -- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis