I’ve had a number of outstanding documentation bugs which are a couple of years 
old now related to this with no responses to any of them:

https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=6115837404512256
https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=5064754754224128
https://openradar.appspot.com/radar?id=6184356729061376

Kevin

> On 25 Aug 2015, at 05:52, Jerry Krinock <je...@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2015 Aug 24, at 09:12, Damien Sorresso <dsorre...@apple.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Disabling [removing] prevents the job from being loaded at all. So if the 
>> job exists in that disabled list, launchd will refuse to load it …
> 
> That’s good, Damien, but is it OK to have 3000 “disabled” jobs?  Given the 
> size of today’s hard drives, it could be argued that this is merely a 
> cosmetic issue, but since there is apparently no limit or frequency with 
> which agents can be created, one could easily have 10,000, 100,000 or 
> 1,000,000.  Is there no way to “empty the trash”?
> 
>> It's a switch in terminology, but not as radical a change as you might fear. 
>> A "service" in launchd refers to anything that is a daemon, agent, or XPC 
>> service, that is, anything launchd can load and manage. Daemons and agents 
>> are still things, as are XPC services. But in the new implementation 
>> (introduced in Yosemite), they are all represented by the same data 
>> structure and go through the same basic bootstrapping path. In prior 
>> implementations, they were treated substantially differently.
> 
> That is very good, thank you.
> 
>> If any of this was unclear in the documentation or can be made more clear, I 
>> encourage you to file bugs. These kinds of concepts are critical to 
>> developing a good mental model of how launchd operates, so good 
>> documentation is key.
> 
> OK, I just spent a half hour reading the documentation and shall file 
> something.
> 
> 
>> On 2015 Aug 23, at 18:43, Thomas <tclement...@free.fr> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think you can remove them. You should use the same job label to 
>> avoid having these many job entries or posix_spawn from your main agent 
>> instead or use an xpc service instead.
> 
> I think you are correct, Thomas.  But I’m still looking to confirm that in 
> the documentation!
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