pkg autoremove removes base package dependencies
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Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:23:38 UTC
Hello, I am experimenting with pkgbase as a way to provision minimal jails, on 14.3-RELEASE, installing only the necessary packages for what I want to run inside, and I discovered some weird behaviour: - when I install, for instance, FreeBSD-bhyve, it pulls a few more packages as dependencies, such as FreeBSD-lib9p or FreeBSD-libcasper - if I then run autoremove, it tries to delete some of them (9 out of 19 installed). FreeBSD-libcasper is one of them, but not FreeBSD-lib9p, for instance. Is this a know issue? I am attaching a tmux transcript for the details on how to reproduce. Kind regards, -- Quentin THÉBAULT