From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 19 20:06:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D870106568C for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 073FD8FC15 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:06:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A203296044DF56E; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:06:49 +0100 Message-ID: <4A8C5B59.4080006@onetel.com> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:06:49 +0100 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090614) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <634E56EB-F49A-4A25-ABE1-0A23D6181BC1@silvertree.org> <200908191220.44893.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200908191220.44893.lists@jnielsen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Scott Schappell Subject: Re: Getting rid of X X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:06:51 -0000 John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 Scott Schappell wrote: >> In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I >> installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I >> installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it. >> >> How can I pare that out of the system short of doing a complete rebuild? > > Install and run pkg-cutleaves, and let it loop through as many iterations as > it needs. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > To be safe, after you have deleted leaf ports you can install ports-mgmt/portmanager and run 'portmanager -s' redirected to a file then you will have a list of any missing ports. 'portmanager -u' will reinstall them for you. Of course you can probably do the same with portmaster or portupgrade but I've found portmanager does a pretty good job.