maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 296272] ports-mgmt/pkg: does not autoremove automatic, non-vital, leaf packages
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:47:44 UTC
Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-pkg (Nobody) <pkg@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback: Bug 296272: ports-mgmt/pkg: does not autoremove automatic, non-vital, leaf packages https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296272 --- Description --- Previously, sysutils/fwupd required efivar, but does not as of now, yet pkg wouldn't clean this: $ pkg info -x pkg pkg-2.7.5 $ pkg query '%a %V' efivar 1 0 $ pkg info -r efivar efivar-39_2: $ sudo pkg autoremove Password: Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Nothing to do. $ I've had exact same issue after switching LLVM 19=>21, pkg didn't offer to remove leaf llvm19 after this.