21st August 2012
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More noise than signal
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: USA
Posts: 7,983
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daemonfowl:
- Many of your installed packages may require X libraries. There are a lot of applications that do not display graphically but still use them. Even if a system does not run X services, the xbase fileset may be needed to support installed applications.
- When you disable machdep.aperture, you disable X display on the local machine. But if you keep the X software installed, you could run X applications over your network, should you wish to. I'll bet this is something you were not aware was possible.
- If you remove X, what space have you actually saved? For what purpose? You told me you are using automatic partitioning on all your systems.
- I think you have still not figured out that the tar(1) program can do more than unpack or create an archive. Here's my only hint: there might be output from tar(1) that could be used with another program to remove unwanted files.
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