On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 8:14 PM, James Hartley  wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Slim Joe  wrote:

>> Is there a way to get package

>> info for a file not already downloaded or installed without

>> such heavy bandwidth (just the package info).

>

> Look at the -Q option on the pkg_info(1) manpage.

>

I think he's asking for how to read package descriptions without

downloading everything. But pkg_info has to download the entirety of

each package first because a package is a compressed archive file.
If you are looking for package descriptions, install the ports tree

and read the Makefiles. Also, if you are lazy/not on an OpenBSD box,

most of the descriptions are available at

http://www.openbsd.org/4.3_packages/.
-Nick