Re: Cleaning up /usr/packages/All after massive package deletion

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from coypu%sdf.org@localhost:

> Actually none of the packages in /usr/pkgsrc/packages/All are strictly
> necessary. they're kept for convenience, so you can e.g. copy all your
> built packages to another machine and pkg_add *.
 
> You can delete all of them. same goes for distfiles, too, if you're
> trying to conserve space.

I didn't know that!  Old packages and outdated distfiles can pile up and waste space.

I guess the real package database is in /var/db/pkg ?

Now I am running pkg_chk -u -s on that computer, and making progress with seom stops.

Maybe I didn't need to delete modular Xorg, but I would need to rebuild it anyway as well as all desired X applications.

Tom