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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box
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Brett Glass wrote:
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> What's the best way to un-GNOME his system automatically? Or would it
> be simpler to tell him to save his configuration files and reinstall 
> the OS from scratch -- as if his hard drive had crashed?

pkg_delete -x gnome x11

...possibly followed by a "pkgdb -fu" and then a "portupgrade -ai".

-- 
-Chuck