[OpenIndiana-discuss] Auto remove of unneeded packages?

[Judah Richardson]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 9:47 AM John D Groenveld <groenveld at acm.org> wrote:

> In message <ec373536-3805-8df7-2486-8064d2dfe039 at Duedinghausen.eu>,
> Stephan Althaus writes:
> >with the BE on OI/Illumos and FreeBSD now (i think)
>
> Yes.
> FreeBSD has bectl(8) as part of base and an illumos-like
> beadm(1) in ports.
> <URL:
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+12.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html
> >
>
Interesting. FreeBSD also has pkg clean and autoremove; wonder how they
support both?

<URL:https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/beadm/>
>
> The Project Trident developers are porting BEs to Void Linux:
> <URL:https://project-trident.org/post/void-beta-available/>
>
My only use of BEs to recover an OS was back when I ran FreeBSD-based
Trident. The ability to switch the OS base *in place* was cool.

John
> groenveld at acm.org
>
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