Re: avoiding wayland and pkgbase

On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 02:23:31PM +0300, Vadim Goncharov wrote:

>I foresee this the main problem with pkgbase when it will get mass deployment.
>Like those chicken-egg problem typical to Linux distros on major upgrades due
>to fact they don't have real base system, separate from packages - which is
>(was) strength of FreeBSD.

Yeah +1 to this. Having the wall between base and ports is a major strength.

Over the years, I've had to either blat /usr/local and the pkg db and
start again on a few systems, or, on others, /usr/local was either on the
boot disk or on its own disk and that disk had failed. In all cases,
because of this wall, and other operational decisions at the start
like zfs-for-data-only, I've been able to *rapidly* restore functionality
without data loss.
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