On Monday 07 October 2002 21:05, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : On 2002-10-07 15:14, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : > Anything that gets overwritten during the normal install process > : > is already taken care of. We're just trying to get rid of files > : > which are not installed by 'make installword' but used to be once. > : > > : > I.e., if a file is not installed by 'make installworld' then by > : > definition it's not required for a correctly functioning system. > : > : This might cause problems with ports that ``overwrite'' base-system > : files. I hate ports the idea of ports writing anything outside of > : ${LOCALBASE}, but we already have some of those IIRC. > > Yes. Clearly, there are some files that should always be deleted > (stale binaries and header files), some files that should often be > deleted (those things replaced by ports under the same path, for > example), and some things we'd want to the user to removed (eg, > libfoo.so.N-1) > > Warner >
And a list of files to delete would have saved many emails about the GCC being broken when the old headers just needed to be deleted. Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
