Ars Technica article on FreeBSD new user experience

James Wright james.wright at jigsawdezign.com
Thu Apr 9 21:59:18 UTC 2020


> To be honest, what's the difference from how yum or apt does it?
> At least yum search returns everything that matches, including matches in package descriptions and so on.  I haven't used apt systems in a while, but I recall they being similar.  This sounds to me just like someone who wants to find something to complain about.

Out of the package managers I have to use frequently (apt, yum, and pkg), I find `pkg search` usually returns what I'm looking for with the least amount of noise.

However, as previously suggested, moving the package version into a 2nd column could help, to make it clearer that you don't need to `pkg install` the package+version string in it's entirety.




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