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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 2010 15:36:29 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
Message-ID:  <20101004123629.GA4308@straylight.ringlet.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimYCA3rRHgbtjPX=sGHd2mXURHBotNB=KHJi9AR@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:01:45AM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 10/4/10, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> (from Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:53:26
> > +0000):
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> index d3aa4b2..2123107 100644
> >> --- a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> +++ b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/share/man/man8/authpf.8.gz
> >>  .endif
> >>
> >>  .if ${MK_BIND} =3D=3D no
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/470.status-named
> >
> > If bind is installed from ports instead, this file could be useful, isn=
't
> > it?
> >
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/bin/dig
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/bin/host
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/bin/nslookup
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> @@ -1976,6 +1998,11 @@ OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/share/man/man8/rtquery.8.gz
> >>  .endif
> >>
> >>  .if ${MK_SENDMAIL} =3D=3D no
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/440.status-mailq
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/460.status-mail-rejects
> >> +OLD_FILES+=3Detc/periodic/daily/500.queuerun
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dbin/rmail
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/bin/vacation
> >>  OLD_FILES+=3Dusr/include/libmilter/mfapi.h
> >
> > At least status-mailq is still useful with other MTAs, e.g. if you use
> > postfix (and assuming the mailwrapper is configured correctly), this
> > should still work. Depending on the setup of the aliases,
> > backup-aliases will still work too. I haven't checked for the other
> > ones.
>=20
> If you want to keep some "old" files, you just need to press `n' instead =
of `y'
> when deleting files. You are not forced to run make delete-old at all.

On the other hand, doing this (skipping those files) on each and every syst=
em
update (say, on a development or testing machine) could get a bit... boring=
 -
not to mention that at some point you'll learn to "oh, just say no", and th=
en
forget to remove something important.

G'luck,
Peter

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Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before?

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