Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Saturday 25 December 2004 12:29, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > >>But it is there, so it will stay. > > > I doesn't *have* to stay, though: > > 1) Add 'WITHOUT_X11="YES"' to /etc/make.conf . > 2) Use You can use 'pkg_info -rR xorg-[whatever]' to see which ports depend > on a each of the X.org ports. > > For each "dependent" port, there will be three possible states: > > 1) You don't use it anymore (eg you used to use Firefox, but haven't in a > long time) and no other port depends on it. If this is true, then use > pkg_delete to remove that port. > > 2) You still use it, but don't use the X11 version of it (eg you want to use > ImageMagick for automated image processing, but don't need the 'display' > command which depends on X.org). In this case, you can rebuild the port > and with WITHOUT_X11="YES" setting above will remove its dependency on > X.org. > > 3) You still the X11 version of it. In this case, you won't be removing > X.org any time soon. > > Note that in case #2 above, you don't necessarily have to rebuild it *right > now*. A lot of ports are updated regularly and might be updated the next > time you run portupgrade anyway. If removing X.org isn't a high priority, > then you can always check back every month or so to see when the list of > packages that need X11 is small enough that you can force-upgrade them in a > reasonably short amount of time. > > Also note that this general approach works for pretty much any other large > system that you might want to remove, not just X.org.
Kirk, Thanks for answering questions I didn't know how to ask. However, now that I realize I have xorg installed, I've been playing with it and I think I'll keep it around for now. I may even install Mozilla or Firefox. Jay _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
