17 Jan
2010
17 Jan
'10
6:15 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Often times it's the user configuration files that mess up a system, so keep that in mind unless you're really confident it's all in the packages themselves.
And if you're thinking of reinstalling a la pacman -S $(comm -3 <(pacman -Qq) <(pacman -Qqm)) then remember to put it in a list first, remove them (-Rscn) and then (re)install (-S). This is because some, if not many packages, contain post-remove/install commands that may affect the outcome.
I don't know if it's a good idea to remove pacman, libfetch, libarchive, glibc, bash, ... If you are worried some important files got corrupted, a simple reinstall with pacman -S should be fine.