On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:14 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 10:56 AM 12/12/2004, Paul Mather wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no
> >> provision
> >> for deleting a port A
At 10:56 AM 12/12/2004, Paul Mather wrote:
>On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>> Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no
>> provision
>> for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend
>> to use a minimal n
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:54:18 -0700, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Again, I really find it hard to believe that there would be no
> provision
> for deleting a port AND the ports on which it depends cleanly. I tend
> to use a minimal number of ports and packages, and so didn't realize
>
On Sunday 12 December 2004 01:54, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 06:42 PM 12/11/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> >That isn't supposed to happen. If another port has X11 listed as a
> >dependency, "make deinstall" would have said so and refused to remove
> >it..
>
> Which, by the way, is what the owner of th
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 06:54:18PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> Which, by the way, is what the owner of the machine is seeing. He's
> listed the ports that were installed by running pkg_info, and is
> laboriously visiting each one's directory and trying to do a
> "make deinstall".
Perhaps you kno
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brett Glass
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 7:24
> To: Lowell Gilbert; Chuck Swiger
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Un-GNOME-ing a FreeBSD box
>
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At 06:42 PM 12/11/2004, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>That isn't supposed to happen. If another port has X11 listed as a
>dependency, "make deinstall" would have said so and refused to remove
>it..
Which, by the way, is what the owner of the machine is seeing. He's
listed the ports that were installed
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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 u
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 t
Brett Glass wrote:
A client of mine has a headless FreeBSD server which is intended just
to be a Web and mail server. It has no need for a GUI and it wouldn't
be a good idea to run one on it. But this week, a friend of his (who
too much and too little at the same time) told him, "I hear you have
a
Chuck:
I'm unfamiliar with "pkgdb". What does it do?
--Brett
At 04:51 PM 12/11/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Brett Glass wrote:
>[ ... ]
>>What's the best way to un-GNOME his system automatically? Or would it
>>be simpler to tell him to save his configuration files and reinstall the OS
>>from s
What a mess! I can't believe that he could do this just by typing "make",
and that there would be no easier way to back things out.
--Brett
At 05:14 PM 12/11/2004, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Brett Glass wrote:
>>I'm unfamiliar with "pkgdb". What does it do?
>
>When you change a huge number of depend
A client of mine has a headless FreeBSD server which is intended just
to be a Web and mail server. It has no need for a GUI and it wouldn't
be a good idea to run one on it. But this week, a friend of his (who
too much and too little at the same time) told him, "I hear you have
a FreeBSD machine. H
Brett Glass wrote:
[ ... ]
What's the best way to un-GNOME his system automatically? Or would it
be simpler to tell him to save his configuration files and reinstall
the OS from scratch -- as if his hard drive had crashed?
pkg_delete -x gnome x11
...possibly followed by a "pkgdb -fu" and then a "p
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