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Cc: Scott Schappell <archon@silvertree.org>
Subject: Re: Getting rid of X
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On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 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?

Install and run pkg-cutleaves, and let it loop through as many iterations as 
it needs.