Solved Is there a world file or similar list of user installed packages?

[decuser]

In gentoo, there's a world file that contains packages that the user requested be installed without the dependencies. Is there something similar in FreeBSD, or a way to get at this information?

I did pkg info|wc but I didn't explicitly ask for 961 packages.

Currently, I just put pkg install notes in my note after I've done some I like, but that's an error prone way to keep track. The world file of gentoo is nice.

 

[zirias@]

pkg prime-list (alias for query -e '%a = 0' '%n', lists all packages that don't have the "automatic" flag)

 

[decuser]

68 packages is more like it! I can't believe I limped along all this time not know this! Learn something new every single day!

 

[D-FENS]

I believe this answers your question: pkg prime-origins
Taken from this thread: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/list-of-all-installed-ports-without-dependencies.64917/

 

[zirias@]

I can't believe I limped along all this time not know this! Learn something new every single day!

I'd recommend to study pkg-query(8), which can extract almost any info you could imagine from pkg's database. Lots of common use cases (like this one here) have aliases though, you can study them in the default /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf.

 

[decuser]

Sure enough, long ago, it seems... I put a note in my install notes about adding:

message: "query '[%C/%n] %M'",
rmessage: query -i "[%C/%n-%v] %M",

into that file so I could get messages back after an install and it's very useful. I'm not sure I have the time/patience to learn query programming, but I surely can look at the file and see what's already available, duh!