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Date:      Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:57:57 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box
Message-ID:  <6.2.0.14.2.20041211165724.05a6a2d0@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <41BB87FB.7090700@mac.com>
References:  <6.2.0.14.2.20041211162451.05b17c98@localhost> <41BB87FB.7090700@mac.com>

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Chuck:

I'm unfamiliar with "pkgdb". What does it do?

--Brett

At 04:51 PM 12/11/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
  
>Brett Glass wrote:
>[ ... ]
>>What's the best way to un-GNOME his system automatically? Or would it
>>be simpler to tell him to save his configuration files and reinstall the OS from scratch -- as if his hard drive had crashed?
>
>pkg_delete -x gnome x11
>
>...possibly followed by a "pkgdb -fu" and then a "portupgrade -ai".
>
>-- 
>-Chuck



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