pkg_delete -a equivalent in pkg (8)?

Anders Jensen-Waud anders at jensenwaud.com
Fri Jun 20 01:26:39 UTC 2014


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 at 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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