Cleaning up pkg-message

Bob Eager rde at tavi.co.uk
Sun Jun 9 20:48:52 UTC 2019


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On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 12:52:41 +0100
Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 08/06/2019 19:29, Bob Eager wrote:
> > The committer folded the README file into pkg-message, and I
> > disagree with this:  
> 
> > 2) It meant that an end user (without access to the ports tree)
> > didn't have an immediate way to see the README contents.  
> 
> That's not actually correct.
> 
> ```
> % pkg info -D pkgname
> ```
> 
> will display the pkg-message for any package no matter how installed,
> or if there's a ports tree present or not.

I actually checked the man page before I said that, and still missed it!

But yes, there is too much pkg-message noise.

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