ports: deinstall-all

[RW]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:04:39 -0700
Gary Aitken wrote:

> Something pretty basic somewhere that I'm missing...
> 
> "man ports" indicates the target "deinstall-all" will remove all
> installed ports. 

That's not what the man page says.

> yet the target doesn't seem to exist:
> 
> #cd /usr/ports
> #make deinstall-all
> make: don't know how to make deinstall-all. stop.

That's not what deinstall-all does, AFAIK it's a more thorough
version of deinstall that will remove packages installed under
different prefixes.

> This was prompted by the following when attempting to install emacs:
> 
> ===>  Checking if devel/pkgconf already installed
> ===>   An older version of devel/pkgconf is already installed
> (pkg-config-0.25_1) 
>...
>
> Where to go from here?
> Why was pkgconf still installed?
> There are other packages dependent on it... is that the reason?
> If so, why no warning / info when I do the make deinstall?
> 


Probably due to skipping UPDATING 20120726