Re: One more pkg non-default-please edge-case reasoning...

Missing: Three pages of examples (maybe) from "man pkg query"
(or some other workaround...
Use Case: (one of many variants) follows... 

pwd == /usr/ports/graphics/exif
[alias for make build-depends-list ]  ... one second
[needs libexif]  # query, is it installed?
lookat /var/db/pkg/libex[tab][tab][tab][tab]   #zsh doing the work
lookat /var/db/pkg/libexif-# , cr  # ... 2nd, 3rd and fourth seconds
[select +REQ...BY in lookat's file selection pane ]  5th second
result:  already installed, required by 15-20 ports already.

I tried to find an equivalent in man pkg-query.  Un-exampled
format string rules, combinations, orders, etc are presented. I
presume that if pkg becomes the default, I'd have to formulate an
alias to match lookat's *immediate* result with the scenario
above (which I use many times weekly...) and hope that it works as
well. [1] Then, there is the case, that if some reason I am locked
into the sh shell, or programming in bash, or something, hours
additionally (probable) to what *may* have been way easier (as
above) is to be reckoned with. 
[1] Ignorance, I know, but still... 


[Not the only reply to this message, FWIW for those to whom the
other reply was not Cc:'d...]

J. Bouquet

--- On Sat, 8/25/12, Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd_at_davenulle.org> wrote:

> From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd_at_davenulle.org>
> Subject: Re: One more pkg non-default-please edge-case reasoning...
> To: "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jeffreybouquet_at_yahoo.com>
> Cc: freebsd-ports_at_freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 3:24 AM
> Le Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:44:15 -0700
> (PDT),
> Jeffrey Bouquet <jeffreybouquet_at_yahoo.com>
> a écrit :
> 
> > This side of simple. (Additionally, a nice
> white-on-blue readability).
> > Never got used to the search keys in "less" etc. 
> So the flat files
> > here serve a purpose I surmise is not that common.
> > And figuring out which  category /editors/ etc
> (the pkg-plist
> > equivalent) is way slower in many cases.
> > A reason to retain that particular usability...
> til/when I/someone
> > notices a workaround.
> 
> I'm not sure to understand what you want to do, but listing
> the files
> owned by an installed pkg packages is easy:
> for zip:
> # pkg info -l zip
> zip-3.0 owns the following files:
> /usr/local/bin/zip
> ...
> /usr/local/share/doc/zip/WHERE
> 
> Please have a try with pkg, is really great.
>