Re: PKGBASE Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature

> packages installed from ports might depend on packages from
> the base system
One of the (if not THE) thing I found appealing about FreeBSD was not 
having to think about or be concerned with that.  You install FreeBSD, 
you get what you need to run (ports/packages) on FreeBSD.

On 8/7/2025 10:17 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 8/7/25 18:20, vermaden wrote:
>> OK, Colin Percival just announced 15.0-PRERELEASE - yet the PKGBASE 
>> concept - besides 'kinda working' - does not holds to the POLA 
>> principle at all - and if anyone will chose to use PKGBASE instead of 
>> 'classic' install the 'pkg delete -af' will not only delete all the 
>> third party packages but will also WIPE almost ENTIRE BASE SYSTEM of 
>> FreeBSD ... this is not unacceptable to say the least.
>
> POLA is inherently subjective; what astonishes one person might be 
> exactly
> what another person expects.  In this particular case, while someone 
> might
> indeed be astonished that "forcibly delete everything" deletes 
> everything,
> someone else could well be astonished if "pkg delete -f clang" doesn't in
> fact delete clang.
>
>> My 'vote' here does not changed.
>>
>> Lets keep pkg(8) for third party packages with:
>> - /etc/pkg
>> - /usr/local/etc/pkg
>> - /var/db/pkg
>>
>> Lets have pkgbase(8) for FreeBSD Base System PKGBASE with:
>> - /etc/pkgbase
>> - /usr/local/etc/pkgbase
>> - /var/db/pkgbase
>
> I would like this idea, except for one wrinkle: I don't think it would 
> work.
> In particular, packages installed from ports might depend on packages 
> from
> the base system, so having a single tool which knows about both is 
> necessary.
>