[OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto remove of unneeded packages?

[Judah Richardson]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 8:32 PM cretin1997 <cretin1997 at protonmail.com>
wrote:

> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, February 25, 2021 9:28 AM, Judah Richardson <
> judahrichardson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Strong second to this question, in tandem with my pkg clean equivalent
> question on a previous thread.
> >
> > FWIW if you use the pkgsrc repo, it's managed by pgkin, which supports
> clean (I think?) & autoremove.
> >
> > Sorry for the lack of formatting; I'm on a phone.
> >
>
> I don't track the mailing list strictly so I don't know about your thread.
> Most of the time mails just redirected to my spam box and I cherry pick the
> thread I wanted to answer. Somehow I ignored your thread.
>
> If you already have a solution, could you CC it to me? Thanks.
>
No, I don't. No one answered my question in that thread. From my crude
understanding of what was discussed, pkg state is pretty much frozen in the
boot environment (BE, which allows for system rollbacks) via ZFS snapshots,
and the boot environment is managed via beadm. As a result of this, the
typical concepts of clearing pkg cache and autoremoving unused dependencies
don't apply to OI, as each BE is its own self-contained entity.

>
> p/s: I don't use pkgsrc.
>
No worries, was just dropping that tidbit of information. IMO it's kinda
hard to get up-to-date builds of many mainstream packages if you don't use
it, so I kind of assumed most OI users did. I see that assumption was
wrong.