Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box

[Chuck Swiger]

Brett Glass wrote:
> I'm unfamiliar with "pkgdb". What does it do?

When you change a huge number of dependencies by deleting gnome and/or X11, 
it's a good idea to upgrade the pakacge database:

      The pkgdb command is a tool to create or update the system package data-
      base which is used by the portupgrade(1) tool suite.  It maintains a hash
      that maps an installed file to a package name, a hash that maps a package
      to an origin, and a list of installed packages.
[ ... ]
      The pkgdb command also works as an interactive tool for fixing the pack-
      age registry database when -F is specified.  It helps you resolve stale
      dependencies, unlink cyclic dependencies, complete stale or missing ori-
      gins and remove duplicates.  You should run this command periodically so
      portupgrade(1) and other pkg_* tools can work effectively and reliably.

You might find that portupgrade wants to pull in X11 again for some port that 
was left over; you will then need to either delete such ports, or recompile 
them without X11, or find an alternate, etc depending on the specifics.

-- 
-Chuck