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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graham North <northg@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: How to clear userland?
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illoai@gmail.com wrote:
> On 3/28/06, Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without
>> jeopardizing or reloading the OS?
> 
> pkg_delete -a
> should get rid of anything not in the base system.
> alternately, deleting /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 will
> remove it pretty quickly, as well.  though one would
> have to check for things started in /etc/rc.conf

Variables set in rc.conf refering to nonexistent programs have no effect. 
But if you delete /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 you'll mess up the package 
database. Clean it by deleting content of /var/db/pkg also. Recreate the 
/usr/local and /usr/X11R6 using mtree.

Cheers, Erik
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