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Date:      Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:22:29 -0700
From:      Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
To:        FreeBSD-pkgbase@freebsd.org, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   FYI: pkg clean with FreeBSD-base disabled cleans out even installed FreeBSD-* base pacakges from the cache
Message-ID:  <D726FAC8-D07E-41AE-98D1-4DA35AA945EE@yahoo.com>
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In my exploration of use of having FreeBSD-bsae disabled, I've
observed "pkg clean" to remove all the base packages
(FreeBSD-*.pkg) from the cache, including the installed ones.

So either it accumulates or is empty.

With FreeBSD-base enabled, the installed ones stick around.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com



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