Ted Unangst wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Cezary Morga <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ted Unangst wrote: > >> There's no way to uninstall, though deleting /usr/X11R6 will get > >> you 90% there. > > > > How about following? > > cd / > > tar -ztf /path/to/xbase44.tgz | xargs rm > > 1. that doesn't delete nearly 90% of X, unless you also do it for > the font and serv and whatnot files.
Of course this had to be done for each x* set. > 2. it requires you have the base sets available, which is frequently > a hassle. You're right. I guess I just got used to broadband that I didn't think about it. > 3. by the time you correct for points 1 and 2, you're > getting dangerously close to having a self destruct tool. As Ingo suggested, I won't continue this subject. > 4. as a general personal rule, i don't feed people pipelines that > delete files. see point 3. I wasn't feeding anything, just asking the list. -- Cezary Morga "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." (Ogden Nash)
