Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:39:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mark@grondar.org Subject: Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper Message-ID: <3DCC3D23.627F212D@mindspring.com> References: <200211082122.gA8LMO1a080022@arkadia.nv.cox.net>
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Ray Kohler wrote: > > Yes, it's already a mandatory step (remove old includes, or you can't > > build C++ programs). > > I mean *all* the cruft -- old modules and config files, deprecated binaries > and man pages, even old shlibs if it's safe. You need a registration system which can subsume all installed software into discrete components, and deinstall those components which have been removed, or, better, upgrade them with new version of components which are no longer default, and which have been made optional. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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