On 27/10/2020 14:10, Greg Troxel wrote:
Not disagreeing with anything you have said here but one thing that I have noticed when comparing pkgin to FreeBSD's pkg is that pkg provides a command that can display the MESSAGE file for a package which is quite a useful thing to have (even for when usage of it is rare). Could this be an option that pkgin gets?Part of the issues is that when people built packages one at a time, MESSAGE was more useful. With bulk installation tools of any kind, as are almost universally used (pkgin, pkg_rolling-replace, etc.) MESSAGE ends up lost. Thus, I look at each use of MESSAGE as a workaround for a bug in upstream docuementation.
Mike