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Hi!

> > > Is there an easy way to "rip out by the roots" a botched
> > > port install and start over, including re-doing all the
> > > configuration dialogs of the port and its dependencies?
> >
> > For one port:
> >
> > pkg delete port
> >
> > cd /usr/ports/<...>
> >
> > make rmconfig
> 
> Isn't there an "rmconfig-recursive" target?

Thanks, I was not aware of that.

> And doesn't pkg delete have -r or -R for recursively deleting dependencies?

man pkg-delete has

   -R
                Delete all packages that require the listed packages as well.

So it looks that this does something else ?

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