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Date:      Sun, 25 May 2003 22:42:08 -0400
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <sasser@angelfire.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: removing base system software, part 2
Message-ID:  <032201c32330$66aaae50$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <200305252244.11802.tsasser@terra.cl>

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> hi all,
>
> i followed the procedure in the handbook for the make
buildworld/installworld
> after editing make.conf.  everything worked fine.
>
> however, sendmail is still present on the system, as are other utilities
like
> telnet.  disabling them is not a problem;  i want them to be removed
safely.
>
> pkg_* utilities are not used to do this.  i have no packages installed
except
> for the man pages ( on top of the base system installation ).  how do i
> control what the base system installs?

The base system includes lots of things, including sendmail (all version of
FreeBSD) and perl (FreeBSD 4 and earlier.)  The only way to remove these
things entirely is to delete them by hand.

--
Matt Emmerton



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