From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 16 13:06:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 43DD716A412 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from n126.sc0.cp.net (smtpout1096.sc0.he.tucows.com [64.97.144.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0298343D58 for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eagletree@hughes.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (67.47.213.85) by n126.sc0.cp.net (7.2.069.1) (authenticated as eagletree@hughes.net) id 45314A240003BD1E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:05:55 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <84143DDA-3AA3-4010-816C-5131C6EF4C86@hughes.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Chris Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:05:38 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Deinstalling X-windows X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:06:13 -0000 I could swear this was asked but I don't recall the answer and I've googled bsd till blue. Since starting portupgrade, I've noticed the majority of time is spent bringing various X ports up to date. I was thinking of make deinstall all of X as we use only command line. To explain, we have always installed FreeBSD, pulled in a couple of ports then obtained the major service components we used from their actual provider (e.g. grabbed apache from apache.org). I'm shifting all our machines to use ports and keep them updated but X is somewhat in the way. (BTW, I'm not putting down X, would love to use it, it's just unlikely to do gui admin work via satellite which is how I have to reach our servers). Below is the list of components I didn't install which I'm guessing I don't need on a server (or at least have never had on a server prior to upgrading our machines to 6.x). The old installation always asked if I wanted X and I'd skip it. Can I deep six them, or, because they are now in the base, should I keep them for the integrity of the installation? I apologize that I can't test this myself, I don't have a non- production machine to play with just now. xorg-clients-6.9.0_3 X client programs and related files from X.Org xorg-documents-6.9.0 Documentation of X11 protocol and libraries from X.Org xorg-fonts-100dpi-6.9.0_1 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-75dpi-6.9.0_1 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-cyrillic-6.9.0_1 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-encodings-6.9.0_1 X.Org font encoding files xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-6.9.0_1 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-6.9.0 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-fonts-type1-6.9.0 X.Org Type1 fonts xorg-fontserver-6.9.0_1 X font server from X.Org xorg-libraries-6.9.0 X11 libraries and headers from X.Org xorg-manpages-6.9.0 X.Org library manual pages xorg-nestserver-6.9.0_1 Nesting X server from X.Org xorg-printserver-6.9.0_2 X Print server from X.Org xorg-vfbserver-6.9.0_2 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org xterm-220 Terminal emulator for the X Window System