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Date:      Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:31:10 +0200
From:      Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
To:        bsd <bsd@todoo.biz>
Cc:        Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies
Message-ID:  <488C6A8E.1090001@bah.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <0956648E-F93F-40EC-A565-17875757531F@todoo.biz>
References:  <0956648E-F93F-40EC-A565-17875757531F@todoo.biz>

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> Hello,
> 
> I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS 
> server.
> I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X…
> 
> This has been useless!!

Better doing it your self.

> I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!!
> 
> Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without 
> breaking the system…
> What would you suggest?

pkg_delete *

This will remove ALL packages installed.

It has worked for me in the past but be careful!



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