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Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages



* On 2025-03-22 at 10:46 GMT, Greg Troxel wrote:

The key point is:

 It should therefore be used only in exceptional circumstances where
 lasting negative consequences would result from someone not reading
 it.

And even then that would arguably considered a fundamental bug in the package. Many, many users of pkgsrc packages install them via configuration management (ansible, salt, whatever), and they won't get to see any of these messages _at all_.

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