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On 6/19/14, 9:25 AM, Chris Maness wrote:
> This was not documented in the version I am running.

man pkg does not.  But the man page does mention

   pkg help COMMAND

and

   pkg help delete

has full docs.  As does man pkg-delete which you figure out after 
running pkg help delete

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>
> Chris
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 06/19/14 16:07, Chris Maness wrote:
>>> Is there an equivalent command that rips every loving package out of
>>> the system?  It sure is convenient when there are hopelessly stale
>>> dependencies.
>>
>> It's quite clearly described in pkg-delete(8).
>>
>>    pkg delete -fa
>>
>>          Cheers,
>>
>>          Matthew
>>
>>
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