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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 13:48:23 -0400 (EDT)
DTD <doug@safeport.com> wrote:

> not finding an option in "pkg delete" that=20
> would delete only libXScrnSaver and not the 40 other related packages

You should be able to do that with pkg delete -f libXScrnSaver

=46rom the man page for pkg-delete

-f, --force
                Forces packages to be removed despite leaving unresolved
                dependencies.

--=20
Mike Clarke