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Date:      Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:24:05 +1000
From:      Anders Jensen-Waud <anders@jensenwaud.com>
To:        Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>
Cc:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete -a equivalent in pkg (8)?
Message-ID:  <20140620002405.GA58255@koodekoo.local>
In-Reply-To: <CANnsUMFbv9pVk_iW3V7WOHHUtOe-xrD13a8JgwCDkg_AoAnPrw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 08:25:09AM -0700, Chris Maness wrote:
> This was not documented in the version I am running.
> 

You can also run:

pkg delete \*. 

'*' is a catch-all for all packages.

> 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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