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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:08:55 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: switch from i386 to AMD64 without a total rebuild?
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:53:23 -0700
paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you, that was how I read it. I will probably go with the superset of
> pkgs I have installed and see about house-cleaning later.

	The only disadvantage of that is that everything you install with
pkg install becomes a leaf package and won't be seen as a dependency that
can be cleaned up by pkg autoremove. It then becomes quite tricky to work
out what you can safely remove.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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