On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:27:44PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Ted is right. I do know about -M but I use it so frequently that I > always have to find it in the man. pkg_info could should be able to > display this info like pkg_info cups. That makes intuitive sense to me > and I think others as well.
pkg_info displays package _information_, which is terse. pkg_info -M displays additional information about how to use the given package, only if it's needed, and it can be sometimes big (and when too big, separated in a given README.OpenBSD, which pkg_info -M points to). To me, it doesn't make any sense to display both when running pkg_info without funky flags. I just want to know what is the given package about. But i think sthen@'s proposal to add a message like 'This package has additional information, view it with pkg_info -M' is the most 'user-friendly'. Landry
