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Subject: Re: [Q] NOOB; pkg_delete xorg?
From: Dave T <dcthompso () yahoo ! com>
Date: 2011-08-13 10:00:24
Message-ID: 1313229624.87806.YahooMailNeo () web120528 ! mail ! ne1 ! yahoo ! com
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Thank you Alan,for replying and the information.
Dave
>________________________________
>From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
>To: Dave T <dcthompso@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "xorg@freedesktop.org" <xorg@freedesktop.org>
>Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:50 AM
>Subject: Re: [Q] NOOB; pkg_delete xorg?
>
>On 08/12/11 12:44, Dave T wrote:
>> Prologue: I am running freeNAS, based on freeBSD. I was looking to try a
>> gui-based app and found I needed an X11 client, so I did the pkg_add -r xorg. It
>> installed gobs of files.
>>
>> Question: What is the best method to delete all of the files that were added?
>> Thinking the exact opposite might work, I tried pkg_delete xorg with no joy. Do
>> I have to uninstall each individual file? If so, is there a list with the info
>> for each file installed (name, location, etc).
>
>That's entirely a question to send to the distro folks responsible for
>freeNAS/FreeBSD - we don't know how their package system works, which of
>our files they included in their packages, or why their pkg_delete command
>didn't remove the files you expected it to. There's simply far too many
>different packaging systems in the different distros for us to know them
>all, while each distro has experts in the one they use.
>
>--
> -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith@oracle.com
> Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>
>
>
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<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, \
helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Thank you \
</span><span>Alan,</span><span> for replying and the \
information.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Dave<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote \
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: \
5px;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div \
style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font \
face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: \
bold;">From:</span></b> Alan Coopersmith \
<alan.coopersmith@oracle.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: \
bold;">To:</span></b> Dave T <dcthompso@yahoo.com><br><b><span \
style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "xorg@freedesktop.org" \
<xorg@freedesktop.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> \
Saturday, August 13, 2011 2:50 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: \
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Q] NOOB; pkg_delete xorg?<br></font><br>On 08/12/11 \
12:44, Dave T wrote:<br>> Prologue: I am running freeNAS, based on freeBSD. I was \
looking to try a<br>> gui-based app and found I needed an X11 client, so I did the \
pkg_add -r xorg. It<br>> installed gobs of files.<br>> <br>> Question: What \
is the best method to delete all of the files that were added?<br>> Thinking the \
exact opposite might work, I tried pkg_delete xorg with no joy. Do<br>> I have to \
uninstall each individual file? If so, is there a list with the info<br>> for each \
file installed (name, location, etc).<br><br>That's entirely a question to send to \
the distro folks responsible for<br>freeNAS/FreeBSD - we don't know how their package \
system works, which of<br>our files they included in their packages, or why their \
pkg_delete command<br>didn't remove the files you expected it to. There's \
simply far too many<br>different packaging systems in the different distros for us to \
know them<br>all, while each distro has experts in the one they use.<br><br>-- \
<br> -Alan Coopersmith- <a \
ymailto="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com" \
href="mailto:alan.coopersmith@oracle.com">alan.coopersmith@oracle.com</a><br> \
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window \
System<br><br><br><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>
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