De-installing Gnome 2.4.2

[Lowell Gilbert]

"R. W." <list-freebsd-2004 at morbius.sent.com> writes:

> I installed both Gnome and KDE  (FreeBSD 5.2.1) and have been keeping both up 
> to date for some time. But I scarcely ever use Gnome, and don't want the 
> hassle of running the 2.6 upgrade script.
> 
> How do I de-install Gnome 2.4.2? Will removing the metaport alone suffice? 

The meta-port has many dependencies.  Some may be required by
installed applications, but others may be removable.

> (When I recently portupgraded KDE several GTK based applications stopped 
> working properly, but they were OK after I rebuilt them.)

The -r and -R options to portupgrade help with this problem.