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I'm trying to keep my packages up-to-date and unused packages off my system. pkg has a feature called autoremove that will prune unused installed packages that were installed to fulfill dependencies. Internally, it stores this in a flag named automatic. Which operations with pkg, portinstall, portupgrade, and portmaster would make a package non-automatic?

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  • Why do you want this? What is the usecase?
    – uzsolt
    May 29, 2016 at 8:34
  • I'm selectively upgrading packages with portupgrade, and I'm making sure upgrading some library won't mark it as non-automatic so it can still be autoremoved.
    – David Ehrmann
    May 29, 2016 at 15:13
  • I don't use portupgrade but I've a simple suggestion: upgrade only ONE automatic-installed library and check it :)
    – uzsolt
    May 29, 2016 at 19:11

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 pkg set -A 0 myPackage-1.2.3_4

Or use -A 1 to mark it as automatic.

Also, pkg query -a "%o %a" will list all of the packages and their automatic-ness. Or RTFM pkg-query for examples of how to list just the automatic or non-automatic packages.

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