Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:23:21 -0500 From: Kurt Hackenberg <kh@panix.com> To: 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: <aTm6mdWQ_nyv21El@rain.cave> 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, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:28:18AM +0000, Lexi Winter wrote: >you're right, this is not well documented. i was hoping someone would >write Handbook content for this before release, but no one did, and i >did not have time to do it myself. So how can we know how to use it? Read the entire archive of the mailing list? Read the source code? A one-page description of the basic overall design would be a lot better than nothing. >however, pkgbase in 15.0 is shipped as a tech preview, and there are >several features and edge cases which do not work as well as we would >like. Maybe we shouldn't use it in 15.0. How can we know how to avoid it?
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