From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 19 16:19:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC0C106568D for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f206.google.com (mail-bw0-f206.google.com [209.85.218.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E938FC55 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so3560348bwz.43 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:19:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tetRxsP1gNJK2M+pm7zPvcJKoJf5LmksxmFD0/hh5Ys=; b=GWcoRNLouObxPnP78rVYri9lTyeexfMa/1vUB3QeNaSW4kDQenxzT+H99+aC5XIEE4 oG7GUTZtzggHC3DTfVN+YtER5r3WqdKygIFevBtUaSN5FUXZ0l8TDXEMnMF4/X2P9m6e 2N8f09vKyoRQo1yVp/9hiQ49pTYqgUfyZ5B6o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TYjqi0MF6/Nu/dF45NoU4KcNKUR0E4IP2mbaplcoLX8t7ZDyk44OJltP4bMKf3PTDv AEd79KaVIfkcTo3G5rG1hwW/8zGslcDa0jNzObRJYb5LjwZclfONT0DS3e/IZlBeF7St YGgGkjBV3Cy7yXDMuwJ9ORCDrJPt/vvxB2PZo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.15.23 with SMTP id i23mr1788294faa.107.1250698796244; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:19:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <634E56EB-F49A-4A25-ABE1-0A23D6181BC1@silvertree.org> References: <634E56EB-F49A-4A25-ABE1-0A23D6181BC1@silvertree.org> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:19:56 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310908190919s7aac6fdarca072b70c3fa1ed0@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Scott Schappell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting rid of X 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: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:19:59 -0000 Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Scott Schappell wrote: > In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I installed > FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I installed X, > however, I don't need it or really want it. > > How can I pare that out of the system short of doing a complete rebuild? > You can deinstall the x11/xorg metaport. (Or, pkg_delete -x xorg.) The "leftovers" can be removed with ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. HTH -- Glen Barber