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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:37:49 +0300
From:      "Toomas Aas" <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee>
To:        Mark Edwards <mark@antsclimbtree.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deleting /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11
Message-ID:  <200410081837.i98Ibpim030947@lv.raad.tartu.ee>
In-Reply-To: <A3A9D5FC-189B-11D9-90B1-000393A5ED5E@antsclimbtree.com>

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Hi!

> I decided to remove XFree86 from my server since I don't really use it 
> and its just taking up space.  So I removed all gui ports, including 
> all of gnome and XFree86.  Done.  Now, I'm wondering if there is any 
> reason I shouldn't just delete /usr/X11R6 and /etc/X11?  Aren't they 
> just taking up space?
> 
> Are those directories part of the a base FreeBSD 4.x install?

These directories seem to exist on all my 4.x servers where I've never 
explicitly installed XFree86 or any other X system. So it's probably 
safer to not touch them. (/etc/X11 is empty on my machines, though).

--
Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/
* Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.



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