Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:46:01 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting packages - a newbie question Message-ID: <19990419154601.A703@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <19990418215732.A21582@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:57:32PM -0500 References: <marko@uk.radan.com> <199904190005.TAA41276@nospam.hiwaay.net> <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net> <99041817400401.00341@Nikki.ibm.net> <19990418134728.A11854@ipass.net> <19990418192714.B252@marder-1> <19990418212520.A24218@ipass.net> <19990418215732.A21582@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson: |New users don't even know about pkg_delete; they simply run sysinstall |and uncheck the little box in the "packages" section when they want to |uninstall something. Don't bet on it. :-) Back in the 2.0.5 days when I started with FreeBSD, I used pkg_* for almost a year before I found out that the "text install GUI" was available as an executable on an installed system. (Tight budget so of course I didn't buy Walnut Creek CDs, and CheapBytes wasn't around yet.) Even with that, I've never deleted a package using sysinstall -- only added from the CD. It's easier and faster to root around in /var/db/pkg or grep pkg_info -Ia output than to navigate the keyboard menus. Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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