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Document pkg delete's normal behaviour of avoiding deleting itself.
Matthew Seaman committed 10 years ago
commit 1da35f01e400da936cd9fee5ce49e7b039b23116
parent 5155474da6ab43dee34f7d8c293ff7ce75bed138
1 file changed +23 -3
modified docs/pkg-delete.8
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
.\"

.\"     @(#)pkg.8

.\"
- 
.Dd November 18, 2014
+ 
.Dd March 3, 2016

.Dt PKG-DELETE 8

.Os

.Sh NAME
@@ -54,16 +54,29 @@ If the set of packages to be deleted would leave installed packages
with unfulfilled dependencies,

.Nm

will add the packages with unfulfilled dependencies to the list of
- 
packages to be deleted, unless force to proceed without deleting any
+ 
packages to be deleted, unless forced to proceed without deleting any

other packages by the

.Fl f

option.
+ 
.Pp
+ 
.Nm
+ 
avoids deleting itself unless named specifically on the command line.
+ 
So, for instance,
+ 
.Nm Fl a
+ 
will delete all packages except for the
+ 
.Xr pkg 8
+ 
package.
+ 
To force all packages to be removed without exception, use
+ 
.Nm Fl fa .

.Sh OPTIONS

The following options are supported by

.Nm :

.Bl -tag -width recursive

.It Fl a , Cm --all
- 
Deletes all installed packages from the system and empties the database.
+ 
Deletes all installed packages except for
+ 
.Xr pkg 8
+ 
from the system and cleans the database of information related to removed
+ 
packages.

.It Fl C , Cm --case-sensitive

Make the standard or regular expression

.Fl ( x )
@@ -74,6 +87,13 @@ case sensitive.
If a deinstallation script exists for a given package, do not execute it.

.It Fl f , Cm --force

Forces packages to be removed despite leaving unresolved dependencies.
+ 
In combination with the
+ 
.Fl a
+ 
or
+ 
.Fl -all
+ 
flag, causes
+ 
.Xr pkg 8
+ 
to be removed as well as all other packages.

.It Fl g , Cm --glob

Treat the package names as shell glob patterns.

.It Fl i , Cm --case-insensitive