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This seems to come up a lot for me. I’m sure I’m the only person in the world, though.

I have two problems:

1) Every now and then, I get the urge to reinstall (nearly) every package on my system

2) I’ve got a pile of explicitly installed packages which are not in the package repositories

The solution to problem number one under arch is a simple pacman -S $(pacman -Qq). Easy as.
Of course, all of the packages from problem number two get in the way of this. There’s no clear way around the problem, so here’s some text processing fun:

# pacman -Qq > all
# pacman -Qm | cut -d\  -f 1 > bad
# grep -vf bad all > good
# pacman -S - < good

Why does a text field (input type=”text”) have a “checked” property?

The internet as a whole doesn’t seem to be overflowing with these.

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