pkgng - the best thing since sliced bread

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jrm@

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Ivan Voras wrote a little blog post about pkgng. I agree when he says, "...the single most important feature which should immediately appeal to anyone who has used ports for a long-ish time is this: it has two-way recursive dependancy tracking."
 
I find the pkg which command useful; however running pkg2ng may have unintended consequences under some conditions[1], and the abscence of a /var/db/pkg tab-completion (used with portmaster) I am expecting someday to find a workaround for...

[1] be sure you have /var/db/pkg backed up probably... if you wish to continue using it. Unsure under which conditions it gets renamed/moved...
 
Yes, however I don't have the time to try and implement|test it this year or until a lot more documentation appears about the usage of pkg tools...
 
A response to Ivan Voras’ article - FreeBSD Ports Annoyance by Michael W Lucas

FreeBSD Ports Annoyance

One line summary: The ports system works well when you compile, but with all the combinations of switches it's difficult to get the packages you want.
 
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