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To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: changing from pkgbase to regularbase [
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Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
> At some point after one is no longer dependent
> on FreeBSD-*.pkg files from pkgbase, one may
> want to recover the disk space from any:
>
> /var/cache/pkg/FreeBSD-*.pkg
>
> files.

`pkg clean -y` after either deleting the package database or dropping
the base packages from it but before disabling the pkgbase repository
will take care of this.

DES
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