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| 2025-07-30 |
Handling third-party software removal with FreeBSD pkg |
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There is an important discussion occurring in the FreeBSD communitiy about the upcoming change to make FreeBSD's package manager (pkg) handle updates to the core operating system. Up to this point FreeBSD has used different tools to manage the core system and third-party packages. With the move to manage the whole system using pkg, streamlining software management, a few questions have be raised. One of them is how to handle situations where the administrator wants to remove all third-party software from the operating system, while leaving the core intact. An issue report for pkg discusses the problem: "Before PKGBASE this command will delete all third party packages but Base System will NOT be touched: 'pkg delete -af'. If You use PKGBASE it will also delete entire Base System also - which is not what someone wants. I would 'modify' pkg to have some kind of 'blacklist' option - to always mask the FreeBSD-base repo - so general pkg experience will be the same after moving to PKGBASE." It looks as though there will be a flag added to base system packages to mark them as "vital" to prevent their removal.
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