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

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