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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:27:58 -0400
From:      "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do we still need portmap(8)?
Message-ID:  <200210072127.58523.dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021007.190527.83978649.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com> <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> <20021007.190527.83978649.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Monday 07 October 2002 21:05, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr>
>
>             Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
> : On 2002-10-07 15:14, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> 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
dzerkel@columbus.rr.com

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