On 2022-01-10, Ian Darwin <i...@darwinsys.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 06:28:38PM -0300, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 07:15:25PM +0100, Andreas Kusalananda Khri wrote:
>> > Which one is the "latest" here?
>> > 
>> >    $ doas pkg_add bogofilter
>> >    doas (kk@box) password:
>> >    quirks-4.92 signed on 2022-01-07T13:45:06Z
>> >    Ambiguous: choose package for bogofilter
>> >    a       0: <None>
>> >            1: bogofilter-1.2.5
>> >            2: bogofilter-1.2.5-db4
>> >            3: bogofilter-1.2.5-lmdb
>> >            4: bogofilter-1.2.5-qdbm
>> >            5: bogofilter-1.2.5-sqlite3
>> >    Your choice:
>> 
>> None of them is the 'latest', those are just different 'flavors' of the port.
>
> Agreed.
>
> The discussion was about different numbered versions, but has been hijacked to
> be about flavors.
>
> If a "simple automated scripted" pkg_add were desired, it would take choice 
> #1 in this
> case or any where there are flavors AND where no flavor was specified.

For flavours you can choose that with "pkg_add somepkg--".
..and it would give you DB 3.x which is probably the worst option.

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