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On Oct 8, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Toomas Aas wrote:

> 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).

Thanks for the comments.  I have since discovered that in fact some 
server packages, such as ImageMagick, in fact need XFree86-libraries-4 
which uses /usr/X11R6.  So I just cleaned that directory of gnome as 
best I could, re-installed XFree86-libraries-4, and I'm leaving it at 
that.  /etc/X11 is empty now, except for my XF86Config which I will 
leave there to save me the hassle of reconfiguring if I ever decide to 
re-enable XFree86.

Thanks for the help!