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Date:      Sun, 11 May 2025 17:33:45 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, FreeBSD-pkg@freebsd.org
Cc:        FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org
Subject:   =?US-ASCII?Q?Re=3A_Is_pkg_ever_going_to_have_a_variation_of_=22?= =?US-ASCII?Q?pkg_delete_-a=22_that_can_avoid_deleting_PkgBase=3F?=
Message-ID:  <7140136F-FD23-47E1-9383-3B7CA25A0922@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <7C9864FD-BDE8-4527-A6D9-0EC5908D177D@yahoo.com>

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Le 11 mai 2025 17:29:49 GMT+02:00, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> a écrit :
>In a system/chroot that is based on PkgBase, a "pkg delete -a"
>that is allowed to run also destroys the system software, not
>just port packages. There is no way to delete just all the
>port packages in a PkgBase based system as far as I can tell.
>
>
>===
>Mark Millard
>marklmi at yahoo.com
>

no! 

there is a vital flag set on some packages that should prevent the bare minimal to be removed
without -f


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