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Rishi Chopra <rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu> writes:

> My understanding is that 'make deinstall' only removes the port from
> the "ports database" - is there any way to actually remove all of the
> files associated with a particular port?

'make deinstall' does a few other things as well; among them, a
pkg_delete(1).  This will remove the files installed by the port
(barring a bug in the port...).  Note that the 'make deinstall' 
will only delete the port if the port skeleton is still for the 
same version installed.

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