Just a brief note from a new, nontechnical user. I actually appreciate the energetic debates because they are educating me about fbsd and its philosophy - not to mention warning me about treacherous shoals.
David Scranton On Sat, Aug 9, 2025, 8:10 AM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> wrote: > David Greenman-Lawrence <[email protected]> writes: > > FWIW, I do have an opinion on this: I think that "pkg delete -af" is a > > useful thing that should not destroy your base system. > > If you want to delete all packages that aren't vital to the system's > functioning, just run `pkg delete -a`. That will leave you with > whatever packages were locked or marked vital (normally FreeBSD-clibs > and FreeBSD-runtime, which contain the most important libraries and > binaries) plus pkg itself (because pkg is hardcoded to never delete > itself unless forced to). > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] > >
