Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 18:13:44 -0800 From: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> To: pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Is this expected behavior? Message-ID: <72E7C3C6-9DE6-4E28-B233-961C83CCDC17@gmail.com>
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I explored installing letscrypt and for some reason, pkg seems to think = it knows more about what I want installed than I do.=20 ./letsencrypt-auto --help --debug grep: /etc/os-release: No such file or directory Bootstrapping dependencies for FreeBSD... + pkg install -Ay git python py27-virtualenv augeas libffi Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. Updating database digests format: 100% The following 19 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked): Installed packages to be REMOVED: rrdtool-1.4.8_9 subversion-1.9.3_1 serf-1.3.8_1 Why is pkg removing *anything?* Why is the default behavior to remove = ports? I have had to install subversion twice today after pkg decided I = didn=E2=80=99t really need it.=20 I avoid using pkg for this reason as well as the fact it can=E2=80=99t = cope with specific config options I need, so I generally build from = source.=20 Why did it remove rrdtool? Does it not know that rrdtool is a dependency = of cacti? Ah, I see now cacti was removed at some point when I wasn=E2=80=99= t watching.=20 Is there a switch for =E2=80=9Cdon=E2=80=99t remove anything unless = explicitly instructed to?=E2=80=9D=20=
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