I have opted for the:
pkg_delete -a
Which has done a great job cleaning everything.
Only had to "make clean" in one of the port directory to properly
recompile all needed apps.
As I had configured root to use /usr/local/bin/bash had to take care
to change that with vipw before doing the uninstall / reinstall.
Took me half a day for three servers… But at least I have a very clean
install with 30 ports instead of 250 !!
Thanks everybody for your wise answers.
Le 27 juil. 08 à 15:17, andrew clarke a écrit :
On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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!!
I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!!
He probably just went with the defaults.
Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without
breaking the system?
What would you suggest?
Like removing X and It's dependencies?
I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the
one
needed?
What's best what do you suggest.
FreeBSD provides a "base system" with software such as a SSH daemon,
Sendmail, BIND, etc. You can uninstall all the packages on your
system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain. This allows
FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed.
I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or
'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted),
then install only what you need from the Ports tree.
Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be
installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD
base system. But that really depends what your requirements are.
Regards
Andrew
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