Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:33:10 +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: <20251210153310.a4b1864ae2502787000b2369@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:
> Sad Clouds wrote in <20251207081139.7e2f65b97b4c089ac0add431@gmail.com>:
> > - I don't understand the design of base meta packages (sets?) and there
> > is no documentation that describes this well. The freebsd-base(7)
> > mentions briefly that some packages are grouped into sets, but does not
> > go deeper, does not explain about the "vital" dependency flag and does
> > not provide examples of how to view and manage packages sets. In fact
> > the pkg(8) man page is missing the new "sets" command.
>
> there is no "sets" command.
Hmm, that's not what I see:
# pkg sets
FreeBSD-set-base-15.0:
FreeBSD-set-optional-15.0
FreeBSD-set-minimal-15.0
FreeBSD-set-devel-15.0
... etc.
Maybe it was implemented as an undocumented developer/debug option and
people forgot to remove it? But then if the concept of package sets is
going to be superseded by package groups, then this may explain it.
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