Deinstalling X and all dependencies[SOLVED]

[bsd]

I have opted for the:

pkg_delete -a

Which has done a great job cleaning everything.
Only had to "make clean" in one of the port directory to properly  
recompile all needed apps.

As I had configured root to use /usr/local/bin/bash had to take care  
to change that with vipw before doing the uninstall / reinstall.


Took me half a day for three servers… But at least I have a very clean  
install with 30 ports instead of 250 !!


Thanks everybody for your wise answers.


Le 27 juil. 08 à 15:17, andrew clarke a écrit :

> On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd (bsd at todoo.biz) wrote:
>
>> I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large  
>> scale DNS
>> server.
>> I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X?
>>
>> This has been useless!!
>>
>> I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!!
>
> He probably just went with the defaults.
>
>> Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without
>> breaking the system?
>> What would you suggest?
>>
>> Like removing X and It's dependencies?
>>
>>
>> I can also remove all apps in the port tree and recompile only the  
>> one
>> needed?
>>
>> What's best what do you suggest.
>
> FreeBSD provides a "base system" with software such as a SSH daemon,
> Sendmail, BIND, etc.  You can uninstall all the packages on your
> system, but the FreeBSD base system will still remain.  This allows
> FreeBSD to boot normally without any packages installed.
>
> I recommend you uninstall all packages (with 'pkg_delete -a', or
> 'pkg_delete -av' if you want to watch all the files being deleted),
> then install only what you need from the Ports tree.
>
> Your DNS server should probably not require any packages to be
> installed, as DNS server software (BIND) is provided with the FreeBSD
> base system.  But that really depends what your requirements are.
>
> Regards
> Andrew

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