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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2001 20:53:37 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: difficulty uninstalling ports
Message-ID:  <20010713205337.I84770@futuresouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010713105733I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:57:33AM -0700
References:  <200107130107.f6D17T001905@mass.dis.org> <20010712215240A.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010713002151.B84770@futuresouth.com> <20010713105733I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 10:57:33AM -0700, a little birdie told me
that Jordan Hubbard remarked
> Boy, life would be easier if folks would just read the man pages. :-)
> 
>      -G      Do not try to expand shell glob patterns in the pkg-name when
>              selecting packages to be deleted (by default pkg_delete automati-
>              cally expands shell glob patterns in the pkg-name).

Whoo, and I get smacked in the face!
Who needs to read manpages, I know how it worked N months ago, why would
it be any different now?   ;-)



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      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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