From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 9 18:13:28 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 34D5437B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BFD143E65 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 18:13:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g9A1DN77135614; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:13:23 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200210092109.g99L92GI072458@orthanc.ab.ca> References: <200210092109.g99L92GI072458@orthanc.ab.ca> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:13:22 -0400 To: Lyndon Nerenberg From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 3:09 PM -0600 10/9/02, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Danny> And a list of files to delete would have saved many emails > Danny> about the GCC being broken when the old headers just needed > Danny> to be deleted. > >We could add 'rm -rf /usr/include/*' at a suitable point inside >the installworld target. Installers should not be blindly removing entire directory structures. It would be much friendlier to simply move them out of the way, in case there happens to be an important (to the user) file inside that directory tree. Or maybe tar.gz them up, if you're concerned about disk space or inodes. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message