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Date:      Wed, 6 Sep 2017 23:14:12 +0100
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        DTD <doug@safeport.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to repair a package
Message-ID:  <20170906231412.7adf86bc@curlew>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1709051339230.17076@bucksport.safeport.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1709051339230.17076@bucksport.safeport.com>

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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



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