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Date:      Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:43:39 +0200
From:      Mark Stapper <stark@mapper.nl>
To:        Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Scott Schappell <archon@silvertree.org>
Subject:   Re: Getting rid of X
Message-ID:  <4A8CF09B.7070307@mapper.nl>
In-Reply-To: <4A8C5B59.4080006@onetel.com>
References:  <634E56EB-F49A-4A25-ABE1-0A23D6181BC1@silvertree.org>	<200908191220.44893.lists@jnielsen.net> <4A8C5B59.4080006@onetel.com>

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Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> 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.
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>
> 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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You probably allready did this, but you might want to add:
"WITHOUT_X11=3Dyes" to make.conf
This will disable optional X support in certain ports.
Greetz,
Stark


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