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From: abram olson <dacia_icarus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: mass uninstall all ports?
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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No hidden question.  I really did want to start from
scratch and build my entire system a new.  Probably
seems weird but that's what I wanted to do.

I had previously gone sort of willy-nilly through the
ports and installed (eg tried) anything and everything
that looked even sort of interesting and I wanted to
remove all of those in one fell sweep.

I am looking forward to building every single part of
my system from source.  What can I say for myself? 
I've got a lot of fre time on my hands ;-)


Thanks again for all your help everyone.  I've learned
a lot form following this thread that I started.  I
really appreciate all of the time, effort and
expertise that you all have shared with me.


Abe


> > 
> > but that wouldn't take care of the original
> question posed -- how to 
> > deinstall/remove all the ports -- since
> portupgrade is itself, well, a
> > port... would it, kris?
> 
> The hidden question was being asked is "I want to
> upgrade my installed
> ports, and one way I could do that is by removing
> everything and
> starting from scratch."  That's one way, but not
> necessarily the
> best way.
> 
> Kris




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