Re: PKGBASE Removes FreeBSD Base System Feature
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:14:37 UTC
On 8/8/2025 9:56 AM, David Chisnall wrote: > On 8 Aug 2025, at 14:42, Dag-Erling Smørgrav<des@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >> Tomek CEDRO<tomek@cedro.info> writes: >>> [...] from user perspective these changes were easy to adapt to :-) >> So will this one. > Let’s remember the thing that started this entire thread: `pkg delete -af` > > This is an *incredibly* stupid thing to do. Long before pkg came along, I did the equivalent of this and managed to lock myself out of a headless box by doing this because I forgot that I was using the ports version of openssh instead of the base one. This is a fair comment IMHO. How many of us have done an "rm -rf" in the wrong place? Uh..... same thing when you get down to it, right? -- Karl Denninger karl@denninger.net /The Market Ticker/ /[S/MIME encrypted email preferred]/