Here's what happens when the compiz package is getting removed: $ sudo pkg remove compiz Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages (of 0 packages in the universe): Installed packages to be REMOVED: compiz: 0.8.8_9 Number of packages to be removed: 1 The operation will free 7 MiB. Proceed with deinstalling packages? [y/N]: y [1/1] Deinstalling compiz-0.8.8_9... [1/1] Deleting files for compiz-0.8.8_9: 100% I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/gwd.schemas" Failed to open `/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/gwd.schemas': No such file or directory ... I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-zoom.schemas" Failed to open `/usr/local/etc/gconf/schemas/compiz-zoom.schemas': No such file or directory