Re: Issues with packages lacking fully compiled dependencies.

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:
> 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.

What makes xfce4-desktop “mandatory”?  If it does not exist in the
package repository, and you did not explicitly list it on the command
line, how do you expect pkg to know that you wanted to install it?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]
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