From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 18:01:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BC416A400 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:01:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A85113C44C for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:01:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so974391wra for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:01:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Ozk/3khUNoXDSAts9tYxZwNMzuS6DbTBxxg8JORATrmds6wnGaOlJA95jrYI/L3hABo6WfBEBxoxT434rpk27sCCTZpbqTFDKfepMctKPV6eOPO/e9LldozEOlKIyLlXqpy3z+TD4Od2YEfAibpgC1I3zcs3Ft+1ZSm2iFYHB+c= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=YFIWGNmvcNblWFQImokbyGfTtezN0qmNieWrqDdjeeFc/Scifqg3SKQMNlFS3rU/1r6ytFx5IYQdH1cTvp5my8NRyc2NoBI5X/InEwkF/toU1T2E4MVwZpc2i2J2VQIrzhfIObfHOe1f7bzRPPJX1zyth4yX7gisoHtGrBKdkJc= Received: by 10.115.78.1 with SMTP id f1mr1060253wal.1177695281031; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.78.18 with HTTP; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:40 -0700 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: FreeBSD-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Desktop rebuild X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:01:14 -0000 I have a laptop that I am currently updating world to the latest from the v6 branch, once that is done I want to completely start fresh with the GUI. Right now I have gnome in a mostly working state, a mostly out of date KDE and a bunch of other random crud I have installed over the last 16 months or so. Instead of trying to use portupgrade and have it fail out/fix/restart, I was thinking life would be easier if I just removed anything graphical and start that from scratch. This way all my settings/data remain intact and I can just do a pkg install the new stuff. Is anyone aware of a quick/safe way of blowing away nearly all installed apps as such to start from near scratch. I do use bash and probably a couple other non-GUI installs, so I didn't necessarily want to kill _all_ installed ports/pkgs but I might be willing to do that if needed. Any thought on the best way to approach this?