On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:33:22 +0000, Russell Gadd wrote
> I am new to OpenBSD and I am not sure what is the correct way to
> find packages.
>
> For example I have tried to install the xfce window manager... and at
> first I looked at the list of files in the packages list and there
> were a lot of files with xfce in the name / description....
> ....Is there a better way to do this?
I use the ports tree. eg:
$ cd /usr/ports/x11/xfce4
$ make show=PKGNAME | awk '{if (NF==1) print $1' > list.of.xfce.packages
You can then poke through that list and delete things without interest.
You might also want to grep each Makefile looking for ports marked broken,
there are a couple, including lua-graph, if memory serves.
To install your list, use something like:
# pkg_add -i `cat list.of.xfce.packages`
