Re: Issues with packages lacking fully compiled dependencies.

On 3/31/26 05:32, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After the last update on my 16-current box, I encountered an issue with
> Xfce4. I use Xorg + Xfce4 as my desktop environment, and I installed
> both using the following command:
> 
> pkg install -y -g "xorg*" -g "xfce4*"
> 
> However, my desktop did not work correctly because the xfce4-desktop
> package was not installed. Thinking about this, I believe the pkg
> command should have a warning message to inform users when mandatory
> packages are missing or were not compiled in the repository.
> 

I'm unsure if the below fits your context or not.

"pkg install" is not equivalent to "pkg upgrade" and pkg upgrade can
upgrade things that "pkg install" would not, either used after or before
such a "pkg install". It is possible that doing "pkg upgrade" might have
completed all the updates needed. It might be that only "pkg upgrade"
was required.

Using:

<https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=%2Fxfce4&maintainer=&env=&category=&flavor=>

does not how any xfce4 build failures for the time frame it currently
covers. (But it would not show the status of being skipped vs. ignored
vs. successfully built.)

Still, it looks likely that xfce4-desktop was available at the time but
there is not enough information to know which builder's bulk runs to
check. (And there can be "504 gateway timeout" issues when trying to
check such.)

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Mark Millard
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