<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>