Pkg Cleanup After Uninstall

[mokfarg]

Hello! I recently completed a little experiment. I wanted to see what files are left over after installing a package via pkg, removing package, then autoremove to clear dependencies. This is my results from install sqlite3, remove the package, and autoremove (taking zfs snapshots of / before sqlite3 was installed and after autoremove, then executing zfs diff)

This one is surprising, this was before I installed pkg sqlite3 or even searched for it.
M /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite


M /var/run
M /root
M /var/db/pkg
M /var/db/entropy
M /var/db/pkg/local.sqlite
M /usr/local/share/licenses
M /usr/local/include
M /usr/local/lib
M /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig
M /usr/local/share/man
M /usr/local/share/man/man3
M /usr/local/share/man/man5
M /var/db/pkg/repos/FreeBSD/lock
- /root/.lesshst
M /var/cache/pkg
M /usr/local/bin
M /usr/local/share/man/man1
M /usr/local/lib/python3.11/lib-dynload
M /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
+ /var/cache/pkg/py311-sqlite3-3.11.11_7~f56588625c.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/py311-sqlite3-3.11.11_7.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/libedit-3.1.20240808,1~897ceb5872.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/libedit-3.1.20240808,1.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/sqlite3-3.46.1,1~8c6c056553.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/sqlite3-3.46.1,1.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/py311-setuptools-63.1.0_1~9eb31eaf32.pkg
+ /var/cache/pkg/py311-setuptools-63.1.0_1.pkg
+ /root/.lesshst
+ /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
- /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints
- /var/run/ld-elf32.so.hints
+ /root/zroot_root_default_diff
+ /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2
+ /var/run/ld-elf32.so.hints

 

[RetroComputingCollector]

Wow. In my opinion there should be a nice way to clean up the logs and leftovers from packages. Perhaps pkg scrub or something like that.

 

[Emrion]

/var/db/pkg/local.sqlite

This is the sqlite database file that pkg uses to manage the installed packages.
As you may guess, pkg uses sqlite internally.

 

[adorno]

Wow. In my opinion there should be a nice way to clean up the logs and leftovers from packages. Perhaps pkg scrub or something like that.

What leftovers do you see there? (Besides the package files, but there already is pkg clean for that.)