Thanks to Scott McCool, he reminded me about the pkgrm command.. :) My
original question was below.
-Jason Ziemlak
>
> man pkginfo
> man pkgrm
>
> Sun's package manager is the preferred way for installing and uninstalling
> packages like this. You could probably just remove the directory, but you'd
> lose the advantages of keeping package info in one place, and any further
> pkgadd or patches might get confused about what exists.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Ziemlak [mailto:jasonz@spanky.evaca.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:56 PM
> To: Sun Managers
> Subject: Removing packages.
>
>
> Dear managers,
>
> We have a few servers that have the X system installed on them, but they
> do not NEED the X system installed on them. All they do is service mail,
> so having this on there just takes up space on the drive ... What is the
> best way to remove the X system? Should I just delete the directories?
> Or is there a particular way to remove them? Considering that they are
> not used, i'd assume just removing the directories would be fine and
> shouldn't cause conflict, but there is always that like "just in case"
> precaution method.. :)
>
> Thank You,
> -jason Ziemlak
>
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