Re: PKGBASE Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

On 8 Aug 2025, at 15:59, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator <DutchDaemon@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
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> On 8/8/2025 4:20 PM, David Chisnall wrote:
>> Every upgrade flow I have on every FreeBSD machine I use is simplified by pkgbase.  Having fewer tools is a usability win.  Having a single command upgrade everything is a usability win.  If you*want to* upgrade only some things, that’s one extra command-line flag.
> Just to clarify things from an inverse perspective: in a pkgbase scenario, how would one go about deleting all ports, and only ports? What would the new pkg command be?

It should be `pkg del -r {repo name}`.

It is not, currently, because (unlike the install commands), `pkg delete` does not accept the `-r` flag (presumably because the only place where it makes sense is in concert with the `-a` flag and no one thought of that use case).

I think that’s a bug, it should probably be fixed.  And now we have a meaningful and actionable requirement.  I have filed this issue:

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/2494

David