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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "R.P. Aditya" <lists@lists.grot.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: uninstalling a distribution (xfree86)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104131558310.36404-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010412101329.A99058@mighty.grot.org>

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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, R.P. Aditya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a way, akin to installing the xfree86 distribution during install or
> using /stand/sysinstall, to uninstall it. If it matters, this is on a
> 4.2-RELEASE machine that has XFree86 3.3.6 on it. I'm turning it into a remote
> server and want to recover some room in /usr. It would be nice if there was
> some sort of "pkg" info kept for the xfree86 distribution so it could be
> removed by pkg_delete -- I figured I'd check before I just ran rm -r
> /usr/X11R6

That's where X lives, so trashing /usr/X11R6 is pretty safe (modulo
/etc/XF86Config).


Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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