pikpik: it'd be neat if pkg up per[tab] finished typing perl5 for me :P

 you could do that with a zsh completion script

 maybe pkg could also somehow tell zsh about it, not sure

 beng-nl & cphuntington97: Yes, I could add tab-completion. But I think it wouldn't make sense unless running Pkg without commands opened an interactive mode.

 Would that be nice though?

 # pkg
 pkg> install web-[tab]
 pkg> install web-server
 ...?

 beng-nl: Yeah, ZSH is nice. But I'd like Pkg to work regardless of the user's shell.

 my only experience with interactive modes is entering them inadvertently and then frantically CMD-C, q, exit, quit, trying to get out of it lol

cphuntington97: The basic problem with Pkg and tab-completion: it's not running when you're typing.

 (Yes, ZSH integration could solve that, but only for ZSH.)

Perhaps pkg ind [part of package name] could work like pkg ind | grep [part of package name].

Perhaps pkg av could work the same way with the grepping stuff, or list categories or something. Otherwise you get blasted with a huge list of apps.

Well, if you'd like tab-completion or even faster speeds, just let me know. :)

(Both entail the same change: testing rewrites in Go and Lua.)

(I can try Python and Perl too, but I think Go and Lua have lower startup costs and smaller footprints.)

(I don't know enough about Ruby, but it could be a good choice. I'm just not sure.)

Also think about Node.js. But MINIX and NetBSD don't support it, so I'd probably have to port it again or use Pkgsrc-WIP. I'm not sure it would be worth it to require users to do the work or to automate it myself. Although, it might be useful to get it working and available officially on NetBSD and MINIX.

Updates could be shown in information about installed packages, or I could have a separate command for it. The first way, "available," "installed," or both could search for each installed package and show the installed version as well as the newer available version in Pkgsrc. The other way, an "updates" (shortened as "upds" or "ups") could show the new and old version information.

Either way, I'd like to use color-coding for packages that need to be updated. I think packages that haven't "expired" could be fine without any coloring.

Since Pkgsrc's "update" command, which could update a package and its dependencies, is still sort of broken, I'm using its "replace" command which only updates a single package at a time. I'll look for a way of either fixing Pkgsrc or making Pkg update dependencies too.

These are a few command ideas, including an idea of a different program name.

package

available [package]

installed [package]

install [package]

remove [package]

requirements [package]

dependents [package]

orphans [package]

I really need to copy and paste these into GitHub's issue tracker.