Re: Getting rid of X
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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org You probably allready did this, but you might want to add: WITHOUT_X11=yes to make.conf This will disable optional X support in certain ports. Greetz, Stark signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Getting rid of X
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? Scott ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting rid of X
Hi, On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Scott Schappellarc...@silvertree.org 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? You can deinstall the x11/xorg metaport. (Or, pkg_delete -x xorg.) The leftovers can be removed with ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. HTH -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting rid of X
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-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting rid of X
On Aug 19, 2009, at 09:19:56, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, You can deinstall the x11/xorg metaport. (Or, pkg_delete -x xorg.) The leftovers can be removed with ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves. HTH -- Glen Barber Thanks, Glen and John. I pared out 72 packages. I kept ones that seemed ambiguously related to X just to be on the safe side. Scot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Getting rid of X
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-unsubscr...@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. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
