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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
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Hi,

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 21:28:33 +0100
Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote:

> El d=C3=ADa Tuesday, December 08, 2015 a las 02:25:55PM -0600, Adam Vande
> More escribi=C3=B3:
>=20
> > Much depends on what is exactly installed but in general that looks
> > like a pretty terrible idea.  If you're willing to going that far,
> > just recreate the whole system.
> >=20
> > Otherwise pkg delete -a =20
>=20
> At the end of the day, I used this 'pkg delete -a', followed by an
> additional=20
>=20
> # pkg delete -f pkg
>=20
did you take a look at /use/local?

It should be empty if you did not install own software.

> and all was fine cleared and ready to be re-installed from the ports;
>=20
This is what has to be expected.

Erich