From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 27 20:07:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 546B116A404 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B75A13C458 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9014651946 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:07:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:07:09 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070427210709.4ae21d53@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 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 20:07:15 -0000 On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:34:40 -0700 "Derrick Ryalls" 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 out of date KDE and a bunch of other random crud I have installed over 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.