From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 21:52:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from packet.mtc.dhs.org (das-01-169-237-54-119.das.ucdavis.edu [169.237.54.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962A737B406 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:52:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jimmy@localhost) by packet.mtc.dhs.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA45rcG85211; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:53:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 21:53:35 -0800 (PST) From: Terminator To: Andreas Ntaflos Cc: Subject: Re: cleanly uninstall software package In-Reply-To: <20011104045022.B696@Deadcell.ANT> Message-ID: <20011103215102.O85206-100000@packet.mtc.dhs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 That's terrible! Fortunately I just want to get rid of X, if I want to remove other thing, perhaps I shall rm -rf / and restart the installation procedure. ;-) I really hope uninstall can be a feature for BASE packages, just like Slackware Linux. On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Nothing concerning XFree86 is in the packages database? If that's really > the case, maybe rm -rf /usr/X11R6 is the best way if you do not need X > at all. Although I don't find it a very clean way to get rid of it ;) > May break some dependencies or so too. > > But try it, if it screws up, you still have the chance to reinstall > X and deinstall it cleanly afterwards.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvk1+IACgkQVieKrU8JxnlJTwCgkXggfR1uuVIC9qYXnrxVDhEK W/QAoL3IqLzZm4nyQ/EsRm13eru1vv6o =38fP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message