Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:21:34 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies Message-ID: <20080727132134.1376b8b8@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <0956648E-F93F-40EC-A565-17875757531F@todoo.biz> References: <0956648E-F93F-40EC-A565-17875757531F@todoo.biz>
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On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:56 +0200 bsd <bsd@todoo.biz> wrote: > Hello, > > I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale > DNS server. > I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X___ > > This has been useless!! > > I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! > > Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without > breaking the system___ If you want to remove X you can use a leaf-cutting tool like ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. But I would have thought that a dns server would require only very few ports (possibly even zero if you use the default BIND), so it might be simpler to start over.
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