Purging unlisted packages

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:16:22 +0100, Andreas Heinlein <aheinlein at gmx.com> said:

    > I have a question regarding "take-over" of clients not initially
    > installed with FAI.
Not a good idea. You should do a clean new installation with FAI.

    >  Is it possible to purge any packages *not* listed in
    > package_config during softupdate? 
rm -rf ;-)

    > I have read that one should not just
    > remove a package from the list that was previously installed, but
    > instead prepend it with a '-' sign. But what if you do not know exactly
    > which packages were previously installed and want to just remove any
    > installed but unlisted package?
I think it's not possible. See above. Start with a new installation of
the system.

-- 
regards Thomas