Re: Package naming conventions (?)

From: Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd_at_bluerosetech.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 04:51:26 UTC
On 2021-12-30 18:50, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In general, full package names end with a version number which consists
> exclusively of digits, periods, commas, and underscores.  Thus the
> *generalized* (non-version-specific) package names for all currently
> installed packages may, generally speaking, be derived thusly:
> 
>      pkg info | awk '{print $1}' | sed -E 's/-([0-9]|,|_|\.)+$//'

Do this instead:

pkg query '%n'