grant beattie wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:59:07AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
>>
>>>pkg_delete -f '*'
>>>
>>>or brute force:
>>>
>>>rm -rf /usr/pkg /var/db/pkg*
>>
>>These are sledgehammer methods that ask for more trouble than they are 
>>worth.
> 
> 
> huh?
> 
> on the contrary, it's the _only_ way that guarantees a clean slate.

This is a complete destruction including all user config files in 
/usr/pkg/etc. Sometimes there are many files. Yes, i know i must back up 
'em prior rm -rf.. etc. But at some bad day i'll forget it [of course].. 
On the other hand, pkg_delete guarantees that relevant config files will 
be preserved [samba, apache, squid, etc]. I don't want to play Russian 
roulette with rm -rf when it's much safer to use pkg_delete :)

// wbr