On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:57:21PM -0400, Curt Sampson wrote:

> > 	/var/db/pkg/*
> 
> This stuff should definitely be in with wherever the packages
> themselves are. If I've got a shared /usr and I mount it on another
> machine, I get /usr/pkg/bin/perl and all of it's associated files;
> why should I not get the information that lets me see the version
> with `pkg_info | grep perl', too?

I agree with this completely.

On a related note... I do "pkg_info | grep whatever" a lot, and I expect
that everyone else does too.

Why not have pkg_grep, aka

#!/bin/sh
pkg_info | grep -i $1

or something like it as part of our standard package tool set?

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