deinstall all apps installed from ports
Peter Boosten
peter at boosten.org
Fri Aug 17 01:45:05 PDT 2007
Erno Immonen wrote:
> 2007/8/17, Peter Boosten <peter at boosten.org> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, right... why not 'rm -rf /' :-S
>>
>> pkg_delete -a
>>
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>>
>
> Ports are installed into /usr/local/*, /usr/X11R6/*, package database
> /var/db/pkg/*, ports options /var/db/ports/*
> Deleting those directories will remove every installed package from your system.
>
> pkg_delete -a will do the same thing, but leaves some files behind.
And your method will delete every locally (not by ports) installed
application as well.
Peter
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