[OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto remove of unneeded packages?

[cretin1997]

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On Thursday, February 25, 2021 1:14 PM, Stephan Althaus <Stephan.Althaus at Duedinghausen.eu> wrote:

> On 02/25/21 05:49 AM, Judah Richardson wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
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>
> Hello!
>
> These BootEinvironments are very handy when you get into trouble after
> some crude pkg fiddling.
> On Linux installations you are in a mess if something severly happened,
> with the BE on OI/Illumos and FreeBSD now (i think)
> you just choose the previous BE and destroy the corrupted one later -
> easy-peasy.
>
> It would allow selectable installations of OI with different package
> selections on one root pool
>
> -   if you think you need to and take care and set the BE names when doing
>     something with pkg.
>
>     I love it.
>
>     :-)
>
>     Stephan
>
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Yeah. I know this feature is handy. But this also means running OpenIndiana is more costly than Linux on the same hardware, especially if it's a VM.