Re: Issues with packages lacking fully compiled dependencies.

"Patrick M. Hausen" <[email protected]> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> writes:
> > 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?
> xfce4	Meta-port for the Xfce Desktop Environment

They didn't ask for xfce4, they asked for xfce4*.  If xfce4-desktop does
not exist then neither does xfce4.

Furthermore, `pkg install -g xorg* -g xfce4*` is a bad idea even if
nothing is missing because:

- it will install packages you don't need which just happen to match
  either glob, and

- it will mark all the packages that match either glob as explicitly
  installed, which renders autoremove useless.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected]