From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 8 14:41: 5 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 7FCC637B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E72D43E6E for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 14:41:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0224.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.224] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18AHoA-0003jP-00; Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:40:58 -0800 Message-ID: <3DCC3D23.627F212D@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 14:39:31 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ray Kohler Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mark@grondar.org Subject: Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper References: <200211082122.gA8LMO1a080022@arkadia.nv.cox.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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