On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 06:34:33PM -0400, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
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> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 04:45:24PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > Is anyone actually using pkg_info -l ?
> > 
> > It's an annoying flag that's not even implemented consistently,
> > and I would like to actually kill it.
> > 
> 
> I don't even know what it is. So, I'm a no.
> 
> .... Ken

There's a lot of similar stuff I inherited straight from ye old freebsd
implementation, back when I needed to make compatible shit.

I'm pretty certain I can kill most of it, using pkg_info for "programmatic"
purposes is mostly dead in our land, since the *.pm primitives are much better
for that kind of purpose.

(takes about as long  to write 5 lines of perl that do things as it takes
to figure the pkg_info options you would need to get something vaguely similar
and parse it with some shell).