On Wed 02 May 2007 14:05, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we
> >are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade.  Because this is a
> >huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully.
> 
> I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems.
> 
> First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long.  X7.2 has so many dependencies, 
> that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure.  
> My guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking 
> out all the dependencies before it even starts.
> 
> Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had 
> created a .Xauthority file.  While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem 
> completely, I don't think this is user friendly.
> 
> But I might be a little out of sate, and all this has since been fixed.
> 
> Stephen

Doesn't this do the same as pkg_delete -a:
rm -r /var/db/pkg /usr/local /usr/X11R6

The main difference is that pkg_delete checks the file's checksums,
and leaves files with changed checksums alone.
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