From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 13:38:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4B237B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clmboh1-smtp5.columbus.rr.com (dhcp065-024-000-116.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 258D743E3B for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dzerkel@columbus.rr.com) Received: from zoomer (dhcp065-024-067-163.columbus.rr.com [65.24.67.163]) by clmboh1-smtp5.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g981Pg006714; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Danny J. Zerkel" Organization: Zerkular Systems To: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:27:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com> <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> <20021007.190527.83978649.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20021007.190527.83978649.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210072127.58523.dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 07 October 2002 21:05, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> > > Giorgos Keramidas writes: > : On 2002-10-07 15:14, Archie Cobbs 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message