since some maintainers think they dont need to use catogories for the software they package even if they consists out of many (packages). this makes it hard to get ride of something like staroffice via "pkgrm".
something like "yes|pkgrm `pkginfo|grep staroffice|cut -d" " -f2 -`" helps in this case
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Hint: Sun’s software is often registered in prodreg(1) and can be uninstalled that way. Unfortunately I haven’t found out how to apply that information to my own packages (for pmpkg!
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Comment by Patrick Georgi — August 23, 2007 @ 11:02 pm