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Subject: Re: desktop-file-utils
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Michael C. Shultz wrote:

>I get the following error when trying to deinstall  desktop-file-utils:
>
>root@ringworm:/usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils#make deinstall
>===>  Deinstalling for devel/desktop-file-utils
>===>   Deinstalling desktop-file-utils-0.10
>===>   desktop-file-utils-0.9 has a different PREFIX: /usr/X11R6, 
>skipping
>root@ringworm:/usr/ports/devel/desktop-file-utils#
>
>I have no idea what is causing this, do you?
>
>  
>
Looking at bsd.port.mk, it skips the deinstall if the installed package 
prefix is not the same as the port prefix.

Use pkg_delete instead.

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Sam Lawrance    ph +61 0425 228 579    freenode: deft