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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:36:43 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Andrew Gould <andrewgould@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: dangers of deleting all packages?
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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 04:32:35PM -0700, Andrew Gould wrote:

> If I pkg_delete them all, I should be left with a
> functional core system....right?  Or are certain
> packages a part of the base system?

The only packages you might have installed are security upgrade
packages you might have chosen to install.  If you deinstall those
then you shouldn't be left with a nonfunctional system, but you will
re-open the original security hole.

Other than that you should be fine.

Kris

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