From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 14:26:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1D337B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B7843F93 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:26:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <200303122226110520052lfue>; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 22:26:12 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2CMQBHI011728 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:26:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2CMQAg3011725; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:26:10 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package set removal References: <2857.192.168.168.1.1047442742.squirrel@www.pursued-with.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 12 Mar 2003 17:26:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <2857.192.168.168.1.1047442742.squirrel@www.pursued-with.net> Message-ID: <44r89cw7b1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kevin Stevens" writes: > I would like to remove the X11 implementation from my 4.7-STABLE > installation, and was wondering if there's a better way to do it than > package-by-package. I originally installed it over a base system by using > /stand/sysinstall and specifying the additional distribution set. Is > there a way to remove everything that was installed then in one fell > swoop? I'm trepidant about just going in and specifying a base install > again, I don't want to destroy/affect my existing base install, just > remove the GUI stuff. The portupgrade port includes pkg_deinstall, which has a recursive option that will do what you want. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message