Re: libxml2

On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:39:40 +0100
Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 12:31 PM LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote:
> 
> > On FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-p8 I have installed libxml2 which was
> > updated. I ran "pkg autoremove" and it wants to remove libxml2:
> >
> >  pkg autoremove
> > Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
> > Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages:
> > Installed packages to be REMOVED:
> >         libxml2: 2.15.1
> > Number of packages to be removed: 1
> > The operation will free 6 MiB.
> > Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: N
> >
> > Is safe to delete, please? I have installed aslo libxml2-core.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, there's been a lot of back and forth lately with
> libxml2, including commits, reverts, refactors and de-refactors.
> Have a look
> at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291316 Any of the committers involved should be able to answer your question.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> >
> > Thank you.
> >

Thank you.
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