Use pkg_delete or make deinstall?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Fri Oct 15 21:31:20 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Oct 16), Ben Washington-Yule said:
> I've been wondering lately if there is any difference between the two 
> methods of removing software from the system; pkg_delete software-name 
> and cd /usr/ports/catagory/software-name && make deinstall. This 
> question is not answered in the FAQ, I mainly ask out of curiousity.

"make deinstall" just runs pkg_delete, so they're identical.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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