Re: (2517) the error message when removing a dependency of a vital package is uninformative (was: Trying to understand base system packages)

On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:28:18AM +0000, Lexi Winter wrote:

>you're right, this is not well documented.  i was hoping someone would
>write Handbook content for this before release, but no one did, and i
>did not have time to do it myself.

So how can we know how to use it? Read the entire archive of the 
mailing list? Read the source code?

A one-page description of the basic overall design would be a lot 
better than nothing.

>however, pkgbase in 15.0 is shipped as a tech preview, and there are
>several features and edge cases which do not work as well as we would
>like.

Maybe we shouldn't use it in 15.0. How can we know how to avoid it?