question for those that know, about listing the descriptions of UNINSTALLED packages

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 10 18:07:07 UTC 2020


On 10/09/2020 19:04, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/09/2020 18:53, ahundredbytes via freebsd-pkg wrote:
>> Say i go to one of the /usr/ports subdir's; How do I print (to the screen,) the short descriptions?
> 
> less pkg-descr
> 

Or

make -V COMMENT

if that's what you meant by 'short description'

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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