Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> writes:
> Is there a clean way to remove all the packages on a system?

    cd /var/db/pkg
    pkg_delete *

I've seen cases where you have to repeat the last step once.

For yucks and grinds a find run over /usr/pkg will then find
everything that was either modified or wasn't registered correctly.

-wolfgang
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