On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2016-04-20 01:12, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> >> For one of our Solaris 11 boxes, which also serves as a VNC >> thin client server and NFS server, we have: >> >> [sol11] $ pkg list | wc -l >> 968 >> >> That server includes the gnome desktop, firefox, thunderbird, >> perl, python, wireshark, CDR tools, etc. So arguably, it is >> comparable to my FreeBSD desktop at home with KDE, firefox, >> thunderbird, and similar tools. For that FreeBSD box, and >> just for ports packages (since I don't have base pkg'd): >> >> [freebsd11] $ pkg info | wc -l >> 865 >> >> [And it really bothers me that FreeBSD 'pkg list' behaves >> like 'pkg files' or similar should. It seems intuitive >> that 'pkg list' should list the packages, not all the files >> in all the packages.] >> >> If you add in 750+ FreeBSD base packages (1600+), that seems >> like a very large number of packages. And upgrading ports >> packages is not always painless. For the 865 FreeBSD packages >> I have installed, only 27 of them are explicit - the rest are >> dependencies. I do not look forward to updating my packages, >> even with poudriere. There is usually manual intervention >> required. So it is with this experience that I do sort of >> cringe at having 750+ FreeBSD base packages. >> >> I do like maintaining Solaris 11 boxes much better with their >> pkg management, much better than the old patchadm. >> > > does 'pkg prime-list' give you watch you are looking for? (pkgs you > explicitly installed) pkg prime-list does show the explicitly installed packages, not sure how one would know to use 'prime-list' since it doesn't appear in any of the man pages (looking at FreeBSD 10-stable right now). And it doesn't show version information, nor other option arguments that I can tell. pkg help prime-list says it's just an alias for "query -e '%a = 0' '%n'". Seems like "query -e '%a = 0' '%n\t%v\t%o'" is a little nicer, though I'm not sure how to get all the columns to line up nicely. -- DEReceived on Wed Apr 20 2016 - 04:26:00 UTC
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