Re: pkg-autoremove(8): portaudio, python38, sndio and tcl86

On 08/07/2022 06:49, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 7, 2022 at 10:02 PM Graham Perrin 
> <grahamperrin@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>     portaudio, python38, sndio and tcl86. Why do I find these four
>     repeatedly automatically installed but removable?
>
>     For example, an installation of tmux:
>
>     …
>
>
> I have been seeing this with both "pkg install" and "portmaster", but 
> never with "make". My attempt to install the gcc11 package insisted 
> that python38 be installed. Similarly, portmaster also though gcc11 
> required python38. I have seen several similar cases in the past week 
> where updates or installs insisted that ports need to be installed or 
> reinstalled when the port had no such requirement. I'll start looking 
> for these, but I think this might call for a bug report.
> …


Thanks.

For the python38 aspect, re: 
<https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/vm3tkh/-/> maybe worth noting 
that at the affected computer, I have not (yet) followed any of the 
procedures that are suggested to ease upgrading following the switch, 
to3.9, of the defaultversionofpython3andpython.