Re: pkg weirdness [corrected]

Errata... on a part of the below...

On Thu, 25 May 2017 17:19:05 -0700 (PDT), "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jbtakk_at_iherebuywisely.com> wrote:

> On a machine, pkg install xorg-server.
> It wants to install the 1G llvm40
> downloads... errors out.  Reboot
> ....................
> boot up
> use tty1 rather than tty0
> pkg install xorg-server
> AGAIN downloads the metadata.
> starts to AGAIN download llvm40, I cntl-C it.
> I add 'pkg add ' the llvm40 that is ALREADY in /var/cache/pkg
> Now pkg install xorg-server runs again, but RE downloading the smaller [... xorg-server ]
> .................
> It lists the packages it is going to download.
> Then, not in the new install... upgrade... reinstall... Y/N? ... it starts

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ was in a later version of the list...

> downloading seamonkey!   I only asked it to 'install xorg-server!'
> .....................
> I think some more huge transparency [ pkg tells us in a verbose way what it
> is doing, and why, and eventually have fine grained menu control before an
> action... so that one can begin to make more sense of a post like this 
> >> eventual bugzilla if need be.
> ......................
> Just curious more than anything this time, though... 
> .....................
> Sounds like did not happen, but did.   Sorry... 
> [ by the way on the desktop, if I build from ports it is v11, but if I use pkg, it is v12. ] 
> So I build from ports, all is good, but next pkg [week] it wants to upgrade a port
> from v11 to v12.  too many places to look, I don't see that setting [v11 on a v12 machine]
> anywhere.    12.0-CURRENT by the way...
> ..........................
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Sorry. seamonkey WAS in the list...