[indiana-discuss] Supported way to remove the GUI from OpenSolaris?

[Calum Benson]

On 26 May 2008, at 20:31, Shawn Walker wrote:

> 2008/5/26 MC <rac at eastlink.ca>:
>> I was wondering if an OpenSolaris installation can be transformed  
>> into a console-only OS with a line from "pkg uninstall".
>>
>> In any case, is there a supported way to remove the GUI (and the  
>> additional system requirements) from OpenSolaris, turning it into  
>> something more suitable for a simple server?
>
> Use svcadm to disable gdm, then begin uninstalling the packages you  
> don't want.
>
> No other way I know of; certainly no easy way -- yet.

I guess there should ultimately be meta-packages in the repository for  
GNOME and for "JDS" (or whatever we call GNOME-plus-the-other-desktop- 
apps these days).  This would allow you to easily swap out GNOME for  
KDE (say) while leaving Firefox/Thunderbird etc. intact, or just  
remove all the desktop applications completely.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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