Re: Unwanted summer gift from pkg

Gian Piero Carrubba <[email protected]> Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:32:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* [Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 07:01:42PM -0700] [email protected]:
>What is going on? Is it one of the installed packages acquiring
>a new dependency? Can you tell which one?
>
>Or teach me to fish: how can I figure this out myself with pkg?
>But without actually doing the upgrade, and that's a hard requirement.

I don't know of a finished solution, but with some shell-fu you can sort 
it out by using the '%rn' and/or '%dn' parameters with `pkg rquery` (man 
pkg-rquery for details).