Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:48:52 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster feature suggestion... Message-ID: <p0602040bbc0bfa992718@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <3FE620B5.9050201@ispro.net.tr> References: <20031221084531.GB31516@cactus.homeunix.org> <20031221105925.GA1713@utgard.lodz.mm.pl> <1072018131.715.10.camel@localhost> <3FE5B804.6000707@ispro.net.tr> <20031221154129.GE2228@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <60563.192.168.4.2.1072043423.squirrel@mail.migus.org> <3FE620B5.9050201@ispro.net.tr>
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At 12:37 AM +0200 12/22/03, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >About those old files, I think any old file which doesn't >exist in newer release does not only waste space and cause >confusion. Also it might cause security problems. This is a very reasonable position. It is such a reasonable idea that this topic reappears every few months... :-) >I often thought of a way to remove older files. The problem is that the general solution is much harder to do than it first appears. It is one thing to come up with a solution that works well for what "you" (ie, any one developer) need, but it is much more challenging to come up with a solution that everyone can always use, for every upgrade, and that they can rely on. You can not have installworld just blindly removing files. That tactic *will* cause trouble. The fact that this issue keeps coming up is a good indication that we need to do something. Every once-in-while I try my own hand at implementing some solution, but so far I have not come up with anything that I am 100% happy with. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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