Today I installed 7zip addon, it went well. Then I selected it from the right pane to uninstall. The pakfire thingy keeps spinning, never ends. Checked /var/log/messages, see below.
Feb 23 08:13:21 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27-x86_64 started!
Feb 23 08:13:21 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE RESV: 7zip: Resolving dependencies...
Feb 23 08:13:21 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.
Feb 23 08:13:24 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27-x86_64 started!
Feb 23 08:13:24 ipfire pakfire: DB INFO: packages_list.db is 12499 seconds old. - DEBUG: force
Feb 23 08:13:24 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD STARTED: lists/packages_list.db
Feb 23 08:13:24 ipfire pakfire: MIRROR INFO: 20 servers found in list
Feb 23 08:13:24 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Host: ipfire.earl-net.com (HTTPS) - File: pakfire2/2.27-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Feb 23 08:13:26 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: pakfire2/2.27-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db has size of 4405 bytes
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: HTTP-Status-Code: 200 - 200 OK
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: File received. Start checking signature...
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD INFO: Signature of packages_list.db is fine.
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DOWNLOAD FINISHED: pakfire2/2.27-x86_64/lists/packages_list.db
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE RESV: 7zip: Resolving dependencies...
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Packages to install:
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: 7zip ^I - 2.28 MB
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Total size: ^I ~ 2.28 MB
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Interaction skipped.
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INST: 7zip: Decrypting...
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT STARTED: 7zip
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT FINISHED: 7zip - Status: 0
Feb 23 08:13:27 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INST: 7zip: Copying files and running post-installation scripts...
Feb 23 08:13:28 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
Feb 23 08:13:28 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INST: 7zip: Finished.
Feb 23 08:13:28 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.
Feb 23 08:13:38 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27-x86_64 started!
Feb 23 08:13:38 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE RESV: 7zip: Resolving dependencies...
Feb 23 08:13:38 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27-x86_64 started!
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Packages to remove:
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: 7zip ^I - 2.28 MB
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE REMV: 7zip: Decrypting...
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT STARTED: 7zip
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: DECRYPT FINISHED: 7zip - Status: 0
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE REMV: 7zip: Removing files and running post-removing scripts...
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: CLEANUP: tmp
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE REMV: 7zip: Finished.
Feb 23 08:13:42 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: Pakfire has finished. Closing.
Feb 23 08:14:25 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE INFO: IPFire Pakfire 2.27-x86_64 started!
Feb 23 08:14:25 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE WARN: 7zip is not installed
Feb 23 08:14:25 ipfire pakfire: PAKFIRE ERROR: No packages to remove. Exiting...