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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2001 21:10:36 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: [Q] clean way to get rid of games and more
Message-ID:  <14980.45356.543532.923651@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <43194776@toto.iv>

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DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1) <gene_dinkey@hp.com> types:
> You should be able to just rm it and make sure you set your cvsupfile not to
> grab it again when you do cvsup.

You might set NOGAMES in /etc/make.conf as well, to make sure you
don't try and rebuild & reinstall them from the non-existent sources.

	<mike

> The only source I keep on my system is src/sys.  And if I happenb to be
> wrong you can always just cvsup and get the structures right back.
> 
> Gene Dinkey
> Hewlett Packard Customer Care
> TCD - PA-RISC based workstations
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anatoly Karp [mailto:karp@math.wisc.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:14 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: [Q] clean way to get rid of games and more
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I'm running 4.2-STABLE and I have a full set of sources
> > installed. Now I realize I don't need /usr/games and
> > a few other parts of the source tree (so yes I want
> > to get rid of them, and never, ever, see them appear
> > on my machine, via cvsup or otherwise)
> > 
> > My question is: what is a clean way to achieve this?
> > Can I just do, say,
> > 
> > # rm -rf /usr/games
> > (but I'm worried if it might ruin some crucial dependencies
> > somewhere)
> > 
> > and update my cvsup-file correspondingly?
> > 
> > The same question applies to (some) ports that
> > I don't need.
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Anatoly
> > 
> > 
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