On 8 Aug 2025, at 14:42, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tomek CEDRO <[email protected]> writes: >> [...] from user perspective these changes were easy to adapt to :-) > > So will this one.
Let’s remember the thing that started this entire thread: `pkg delete -af` This is an *incredibly* stupid thing to do. Long before pkg came along, I did the equivalent of this and managed to lock myself out of a headless box by doing this because I forgot that I was using the ports version of openssh instead of the base one. There are lots of other ways that deleting all packages will break your system. This is why `pkg delete` *shows you a list of packages that it will delete*, whether you specify `-a` or a single package. If you add `-f`, you are explicitly saying ‘I know what I am doing, I don’t need to see the list of packages, I know exactly what is happening’. To all of the people worrying about this: In the decade since pkg was introduced, how many times have you *ever* run `pkg delete -af`? My guess, for 99% of users, the answer is zero. It’s like running rm -rf without checking what’s in a directory first. This entire long thread is because someone did a large destructive operation, using a tool that defaults to telling them in detail what it will do and giving them a chance to stop, and intentionally put the tool in the mode where it didn’t do that. If that’s the most likely way of accidentally breaking a FreeBSD system, we’re in an amazing position. I doubt it’s even in the top 100. David
