Baptiste Daroussin

this number of pkgsave files have been drastrically reduced.

I agree having a flag for this will be interesting...

Can you submit the patch upstream (libfetch in base as well, if not done?)

Usually you open a PR (https://bugs.freebsd.org) and/or mail maintainer des@ in the case of libfetch, do not hesitate to CC me (bapt@)

the repository handling is pluggeable (aka we can create alternative repository formats) so yes this has been in mind for pkg for a while, and I would great any patch...

the point would be to directly use debian and/or any RPMs repo without using the ports tree.

100% of the linux packages are installed in archlinux or debian chroots that I have, without a single bit of linux things from the ports tree, so I can tell...

someone needs to design the whole things, the only part that has been made pluggable for now is the repository. The support for the specific file format needs to be...

pkg already does that the packages are in the cache directory so one can manually install it via pkg install /var/cache/pkg/chromium

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