Re: Package naming conventions (?)

In message <4f64bca8-c3e6-01d8-3777-8ed10003d415@bluerosetech.com>, 
Mel Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com> wrote:

>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'

Thank you!  I knew that something like this must exist, but I had no idea
what the command was until now.

I guess that now that I have this I should stop whining about goofy package
version numbers, but I'm still an anal retentive personality, and I would
still prefer it if those all consisted of just digits, periods, commas, and
underscores.

Not that anyone ever cares what I think.


Regards,
rfg