pkg_delete PERL ?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.no-ip.com
Sat Sep 13 19:05:42 PDT 2003


"Richard Shea" <richardshea at fastmail.fm> writes:

> Hi - I've got disk space problems I'm trying to resolve by having a clear
> up. I've got a lot of stuff which appears to be Perl modules (see
> listings bottom) but I don't know how to uninstall Perl modules - can
> anyone tell me ?
> 
> On the same subject is it possible to uninstall Perl ? When I do pkg_info
> it's not in there - is it build deeper into BSD than that ? 

Before 5.x, perl was part of the base system.  You didn't mention what
version you're running, so I'll just guess it's 4.x.  If it's a recent
4.x, you *might* be able to get rid of perl and be okay, but it's
certainly not supported.


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