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