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Hi all,

After the last update on my 16-current box, I encountered an issue with
Xfce4. I use Xorg + Xfce4 as my desktop environment, and I installed
both using the following command:

pkg install -y -g "xorg*" -g "xfce4*"

However, my desktop did not work correctly because the xfce4-desktop
package was not installed. Thinking about this, I believe the pkg
command should have a warning message to inform users when mandatory
packages are missing or were not compiled in the repository.
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On 3/31/26 05:32, rizzo@rizzo.eng.br wrote:

Hi all,

After the last update on my 16-current box, I encountered an issue with Xfce4. I use Xorg + Xfce4 as my desktop environment, and I installed
both using the following command:

pkg install -y -g "xorg*" -g "xfce4*"

However, my desktop did not work correctly because the xfce4-desktop
package was not installed. Thinking about this, I believe the pkg
command should have a warning message to inform users when mandatory
packages are missing or were not compiled in the repository.

I'm unsure if the below fits your context or not.

"pkg install" is not equivalent to "pkg upgrade" and pkg upgrade can
upgrade things that "pkg install" would not, either used after or before
such a "pkg install". It is possible that doing "pkg upgrade" might have completed all the updates needed. It might be that only "pkg upgrade"
was required.

Using:

<https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=%2Fxfce4&maintainer=&env=&category=&flavor=>

does not how any xfce4 build failures for the time frame it currently
covers. (But it would not show the status of being skipped vs. ignored
vs. successfully built.)

Still, it looks likely that xfce4-desktop was available at the time but
there is not enough information to know which builder's bulk runs to
check. (And there can be "504 gateway timeout" issues when trying to
check such.)
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rizzo@rizzo.eng.br writes:

After the last update on my 16-current box, I encountered an issue
with Xfce4. I use Xorg + Xfce4 as my desktop environment, and I
installed both using the following command:

pkg install -y -g "xorg*" -g "xfce4*"

However, my desktop did not work correctly because the xfce4-desktop
package was not installed. Thinking about this, I believe the pkg
command should have a warning message to inform users when mandatory
packages are missing or were not compiled in the repository.

What makes xfce4-desktop rCLmandatoryrCY? If it does not exist in the
package repository, and you did not explicitly list it on the command
line, how do you expect pkg to know that you wanted to install it?
DES
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"Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> writes:

Dag-Erling Sm|+rgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> writes:

What makes xfce4-desktop rCLmandatoryrCY? If it does not exist in the package repository, and you did not explicitly list it on the command
line, how do you expect pkg to know that you wanted to install it?

xfce4 Meta-port for the Xfce Desktop Environment

They didn't ask for xfce4, they asked for xfce4*. If xfce4-desktop does
not exist then neither does xfce4.
Furthermore, `pkg install -g xorg* -g xfce4*` is a bad idea even if
nothing is missing because:
- it will install packages you don't need which just happen to match
either glob, and
- it will mark all the packages that match either glob as explicitly
installed, which renders autoremove useless.
DES
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