How to clear userland?

[Graham North]

Hi illoai:
Thank you.
G/


illoai at gmail.com wrote:

>On 3/28/06, Graham North <northg at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>Is there a nice tidy way to clear my userland - CLEAN without
>>jeopardizing or reloading the OS?
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>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
>
>Unlike certain operating systems, the bloat doesn't
>do much except take up drive space if you're not
>actually running the stuff in the bloat.
>
>Make the locate database build a tiny bit slower,
>I suppose.
>
>rock the bloat/don't rock the bloat
>
>You can rebuild the base system from scratch by
>following the whole cvsup, buildworld, kernel
>business.  Note what can be not installed in
>/etc/make.conf (I think you still have a partial
>reference living in /etc/defaults/make.conf on 4.11,
>though I may have forgotten.)
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-- 
Kindness can be infectious - try it.

Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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