Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:28:22 +0000 From: Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> To: Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (2517) the error message when removing a dependency of a vital package is uninformative (was: Trying to understand base system packages) Message-ID: <20251211152822.d5d3c51766a25b14f37eefd4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <aTkvIvFJHLf4WxUa@amaryllis.le-fay.org> References: <20251205122830.cb88058f193987b47a95a77c@gmail.com> <20251205134510.6fae5caf@dorfdsl.de> <20251205143119.441cc1bd8722345d074a4480@gmail.com> <16e766b9-f442-4cef-a991-c940f6b8182a@gmail.com> <20251207081139.7e2f65b97b4c089ac0add431@gmail.com> <aTkvIvFJHLf4WxUa@amaryllis.le-fay.org>
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On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:28:18 +0000 Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote: > > The base set includes all other sets, why? > > because the base set means "the entire base system", which implies that > it also installs all other sets. if you do not want to install "the > entire base system", you should remove (or not install) the base set. Hi, can you please confirm if this is a pkg bug, or if I did something stupid. # pkg info | grep metapackage Then for each metapackage I executed: # pkg delete -f FreeBSD-set-XXX This removed all sets, including base. The individual packages are still there. I did not touch them. If I now attempt to run "pkg autoremove" to see which packages need to be marked manually installed, pkg goes into infinite loop, gradually consuming memory at a rate of 1 MiB every 5 seconds.help
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