Getting rid of X

[Chris Whitehouse]

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.
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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.