Improve explanations of the -R and -r options. This is partially

based on ideas from Greg A. Woods posted to netbsd-bugs list on
23/Jan/2004.
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.\" $NetBSD: pkg_delete.1,v 1.31 2003/09/08 08:57:56 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: pkg_delete.1,v 1.32 2004/01/29 01:56:17 reed Exp $
.\"
.\" FreeBSD install - a package for the installation and maintenance
.\" of non-core utilities.
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be set automatically to the installed location by
.Xr pkg_add 1 .
.It Fl R
Like the
.Fl r
option, this does a recursive delete.
The
This option triggers a recursive delete of the given package and any
packages it depends on, unless some other package still needs a
dependent package.
This
.Fl R
option deletes the given package and any packages required by
it, unless some other package still needs them.
This can be used to delete a package and all the packages it needs.
option can be used to clean up by deleting a package and all its
then-unneeded dependent packages.
.It Fl r
.Nm
first builds a list of all packages that require (directly and indirectly)
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It then deletes these packages using
.Nm
with the given options before deleting the user specified package.
This
.Fl r
option can be used to recursively delete a package and all of the
packages which depend on that package.
.It Fl V
Print version number and exit.
.It Fl v