Use pkg_delete or make deinstall?

[Dancho Penev]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 11:31:19PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 23:31:19 -0500
>From: Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com>
>To: Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01 at yahoo.com.au>
>Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Use pkg_delete or make deinstall?
>
>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.

It's important to know that "make deinstall" runs "pkg_delete -f ..."

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