Date: 27 Jul 2004 18:04:30 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: De-installing Gnome 2.4.2 Message-ID: <44wu0p9kep.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200407271850.45282.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> References: <200407271850.45282.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com>
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"R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> writes: > I installed both Gnome and KDE (FreeBSD 5.2.1) and have been keeping both up > to date for some time. But I scarcely ever use Gnome, and don't want the > hassle of running the 2.6 upgrade script. > > How do I de-install Gnome 2.4.2? Will removing the metaport alone suffice? The meta-port has many dependencies. Some may be required by installed applications, but others may be removable. > (When I recently portupgraded KDE several GTK based applications stopped > working properly, but they were OK after I rebuilt them.) The -r and -R options to portupgrade help with this problem.
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