remove all installed packages

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Tue Dec 29 07:10:07 UTC 2015


On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 07:28:42 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Tuesday, December 29, 2015 a las 08:00:50AM +0800, Erich Dollansky escribió:
> > It should be empty if you did not install own software.
> 
> No, it should not and it wasn't. The deletion did not removed config
> files in /usr/local/etc, for example.

This is intended. If I remember correctly, _any_ file not
mentioning the checksum of the original file coming from
the port or package, and any additionally supplied file
will not be removed by package deletion ("user files").


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