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Date:      Sat, 19 May 2001 16:00:53 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to deal with /var/log
Message-ID:  <20010519160052.L1198@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010519235639.B885@ringworld.oblivion.bg>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:56:40PM %2B0300
References:  <20010518171647.A3528@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> <20010518103850.W26877@casimir.physics.purdue.edu> <20010519235639.B885@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 11:56:40PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Just another datapoint:  IMNSHO, log files should NOT be removed
> automatically when deinstalling a package/port.  Consider the case
> of a port being upgraded on a production server - well, call me
> paranoid, but I would certainly like to keep my logfiles across
> the upgrade :)  (just think about statistics and pretty, colorful
> pie-charts and bargraphs for the marketing dudes.. eeewwww ;)

Yes, that is your HO, and not everyone has the same attitude about how
packages should handle log files.  Which is why I say we don't have the
proper mechanisms to handle this kind of thing.

-- 
wca

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