From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 04:31:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B678C16A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D09143D3F for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:31:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i9G4VJfl018283; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:31:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:31:19 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ben Washington-Yule Message-ID: <20041016043119.GB81030@dan.emsphone.com> References: <41708E81.5090901@yahoo.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41708E81.5090901@yahoo.com.au> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Use pkg_delete or make deinstall? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:31:20 -0000 In the last episode (Oct 16), Ben Washington-Yule said: > I've been wondering lately if there is any difference between the two > methods of removing software from the system; pkg_delete software-name > and cd /usr/ports/catagory/software-name && make deinstall. This > question is not answered in the FAQ, I mainly ask out of curiousity. "make deinstall" just runs pkg_delete, so they're identical. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com