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From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
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Subject: Re: which is the better way...?
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Le Tue, 1 Dec 2009 23:15:11 -0800,
Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> a =E9crit :
=20
> it is better to pkg_delete OOo-301 or just cd to /usr/local and
> /bin/rm -r it from there?  this time i'll make a not of the preferred
> way of cleaning out the old stuff..

You should use pkg_delete to remove an installed port.
It removes the program, the doc, ..., but also entries in the pakage
database (/var/db/pkg/).

Regards.