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Date:      Mon, 10 May 2004 20:22:19 -0700
From:      Roop Nanuwa <roop.nanuwa@gmail.com>
To:        Chiang Seng Chang <cs@ctzen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_deinstall or pkg_delete
Message-ID:  <75f3f705040510202240a5eae3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <40A03E56.1000909@ctzen.com>
References:  <40A03E56.1000909@ctzen.com>

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On Mon, 10 May 2004 22:45:42 -0400, Chiang Seng Chang <cs@ctzen.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What's the difference between pkg_deinstall and pkg_delete ?
> 

pkg_deinstall is a wrapper for pkg_delete that supports wildcards and
dependency recursion.

> If I use portinstall to install a port, which should I use to uninstall it ?
> 

If it's a single port that you want to delete on its own then either
will suffice.
If you want to do a recursive uninstall or delete multiple packages then you'll
probably want to make use of pkg_deinstall.

--roop



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