> I have two systems, one RH 7.2 and one RH 7.3 that are running fine, but > we've determined that these systems will never, ever, under any > circumstances, and by that I mean NEVER need to run a graphical > interface. :-) > > Why that wasn't determined at installation is before my time so the > answer to that is "I don't know." > > Rather than poking through individual RPM's and removing it piece by > piece (fonts, browsers, gnome, etc.), is there a simple command line > interface to remove groups of rpms at once, or to do the equivalent of > the handy install tools that let you select that you don't want X or > anything related to it? Something other than "rm" of course, and it's > not important enough to do a reinstall. > > There's no rush to get this done. X isn't causing any kind of security > issues, and disk space isn't an issue, but I'd like to eventually remove > it since it isn't needed. This is more of a learning exercise in how to > remove something that's this integrated with the existing system. man rpm leads to what looks like: rpm -e --allmatches XFree86