At 12:01 PM +0200 7/26/02, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >Erik Greenwald wrote: >>speaking of, is there any good way to automatically eliminate old >>unnecessary parts of the base? > >>should there be one? :) > >An increasing number of people seem to believe that and there has >been some discussion lately, which showed that there are also a >large number of people opposing that (for reasons that remain >unclear to me).
The specific methods that have been proposed (namely, a blind 'rm -f' hanging off a 'find' command) are too dangerous, IMO. We need to come up with something which isn't so destructive, if we're going to do this, and which recognizes that people might have very legitimate reasons to have their very own "old file" sitting at some point in some directory. the FreeBSD project does not own my hardware or my time, and is not appropriate for installworlds started deleting files based on no other criteria than the timestamp on the file. That said though, it would be good to have something a little smarter than a blind find|rm which did find old files, and move them out of the way. [move, not remove -- just in case it picks the wrong files!] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
