From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 13 19:05:42 2003 Return-Path: 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 6850C16A4BF for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:05:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699FD43F93 for ; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:05:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2003091402054001200cdom3e>; Sun, 14 Sep 2003 02:05:40 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8E25eCo073976; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:05:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h8E25enl073973; Sat, 13 Sep 2003 22:05:40 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: "Richard Shea" References: <20030914003329.A3A076F090@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 13 Sep 2003 22:05:39 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030914003329.A3A076F090@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <44ad985dl8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: pkg_delete PERL ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 02:05:42 -0000 "Richard Shea" writes: > Hi - I've got disk space problems I'm trying to resolve by having a clear > up. I've got a lot of stuff which appears to be Perl modules (see > listings bottom) but I don't know how to uninstall Perl modules - can > anyone tell me ? > > On the same subject is it possible to uninstall Perl ? When I do pkg_info > it's not in there - is it build deeper into BSD than that ? Before 5.x, perl was part of the base system. You didn't mention what version you're running, so I'll just guess it's 4.x. If it's a recent 4.x, you *might* be able to get rid of perl and be okay, but it's certainly not supported.