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Old 21st August 2012
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daemonfowl:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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