[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:18:00PM +0300, dan_partelly wrote:
> 
> be as terse as possible. You guys seen the "Add remove programs"
>  in Windows control panel ? Thats sane. Even now the default output  
> of pkg borders insane, when you have many packages installed. 99% of my
> time
> I dont really care about lib-rtyum546.78.9. I care only less than 1% of my
> time when something 
> goes wrong. 

Don't use "pkg info" then. Use "pkg leaf":

% pkg info | wc -l
     249
% pkg leaf | wc -l
      25

"leaf" is an alias for:
pkg 'query -e "%a == 0" "%n-%v"'


And to everyone complaining about the number of packages: How many of
you have actually used the packaged base?
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