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Subject: Re: cleaning ports manually?
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On Saturday 24 December 2005 05:45, Michael C. Shultz wrote:

> rm -r /var/db

> As far as I know the world will not be effected by removing the above
> directories and if it is likely that is something that should be reported
> through a PR (problem report).

dhclient, entropy, ipf, mixer and a few more are affected by that. rm 
-r /var/db/pkg /var/db/ports would be cleaner. /var/db is part of base hier, 
see /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist

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