From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 19 12:48:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CE314FC8 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rhh@ipass.net) Received: from stealth.ipass.net. (ts6-194-ppp.ipass.net [198.78.59.194]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02450; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:45:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.ipass.net. (8.9.1/8.8.8) id PAA01062; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:46:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from rhh) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:46:01 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: Dan Nelson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deleting packages - a newbie question Message-ID: <19990419154601.A703@ipass.net> References: <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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990418215732.A21582@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 09:57:32PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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