On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:08:30PM +0200, Janne Johansson wrote: > I usually add a bunch of packages in a row, and when it wants me to > interact, I don't understand why the packages act differently: > > pkg_add subversion mtr arping rsync > Ambiguous: choose dependency for subversion-1.7.8: > a 0: apr-util-1.4.1p0 > 1: apr-util-1.4.1p0-ldap [...] > Ambiguous: choose package for rsync > a 0: <None> > 1: rsync-3.0.9p2 > 2: rsync-3.0.9p2-iconv > Your choice: 1 > rsync-3.0.9p2: > ok > > Why does rsync think 0 (None) is a "good" default? The other deps for svn > all think 0 is a choice where something actually gets installed, but 0 for > rsync seems to be .. Dont.
All other packages are dependencies. rsync is something you ask for, so you can decide to let it NOT install anything. > In my particular case it would be neat to just type 0,0,0 all the time, but > that's really not the basic point, it is more "why does it even give you a > don't install at all as an option?" > pkg_add rsync > really does mean "I would like (an version of) rsync installed" to me. The other stuff (dependencies) asks for a specific version by default. If you want the same thing for rsync, you should do pkg_add rsync-- (to ask for the empty flavor)
