Removing Ports

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Feb 2 13:17:06 PST 2004


On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:12:04AM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote:
> My understanding is that 'make deinstall' only removes the port from the 
>  "ports database" - is there any way to actually remove all of the 
> files associated with a particular port?

No, 'make deinstall' removes the installed files too.  That's one of
the major reasons why the ports collection is useful.

Kris
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