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Subject: Re: remove all of KDE
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Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes:

> On 01 Aug jdyke wrote:
>> If i `pkg_delete kdebase` will it delete all sub packages. or do those
>> have to go one at a time?
>
> "pkg_delete kde\*" removes most if not all of kde* stuff.

Using "-r" should also get rid of packages that depend on the kde
stuff.  You might ought to use "-rn" first, and study output.

BTW, it seems that pkg_deinstall is meant to be used instead of
pkg_delete (outside old scripts, anyway).