I understand now that "delmanifest" is intended to delete services -- not manifests -- that were delivered by auto-imported services.
A few comments: a) A force option to "delete" seems more appropriate (and certainly less confusing, if only to me). b) Will one still be able delete, with the "delete" sub-command, manually created instances of services delivered by manifests? I would expect the answer to be "yes." c) A service deleted with delmanifest will be autoimported again unless the manifest [or pkg delivering is] removed. This is just an observation. I don't know if this is a problem or not, though I suspect it's not. Nico --