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2012-11-12 22:04, Gary Aitken skrev:
> Something pretty basic somewhere that I'm missing...
>
> "man ports" indicates the target "deinstall-all" will remove all installed ports.
> yet the target doesn't seem to exist:

If you really want to remove all installed ports you can do as I do

pkg_delete -f \*