[arch-general] Re-installing whole system without touching configs.

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeister at 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.