Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:07:09 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Desktop rebuild Message-ID: <20070427210709.4ae21d53@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0704271034h5286b129i7c3c8d3babb65f94@mail.gmail.com> References: <d5eb95fc0704271034h5286b129i7c3c8d3babb65f94@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:40 -0700 "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 out of date KDE and a bunch of other random crud I have installed over 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. If I were you I'd just get a list of ports-origins pkg_info -oqa > portlist and then just delete the lot.
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