Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:06:49 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Scott Schappell <archon@silvertree.org> Subject: Re: Getting rid of X Message-ID: <4A8C5B59.4080006@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <200908191220.44893.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <634E56EB-F49A-4A25-ABE1-0A23D6181BC1@silvertree.org> <200908191220.44893.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > To be safe, after you have deleted leaf ports you can install ports-mgmt/portmanager and run 'portmanager -s' redirected to a file then you will have a list of any missing ports. 'portmanager -u' will reinstall them for you. Of course you can probably do the same with portmaster or portupgrade but I've found portmanager does a pretty good job.
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