Getting rid of X

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:19:59 UTC 2009


Hi,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Scott Schappell<archon at silvertree.org> 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?
>

You can deinstall the x11/xorg metaport.  (Or, pkg_delete -x xorg.)
The "leftovers" can be removed with ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves.

HTH


-- 
Glen Barber


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