From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 8 10:43:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00694 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (root@jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00635 for ; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:43:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id KAA42346; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:43:23 -0700 Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.04) with SMTP id KAA15771; Fri, 8 May 1998 10:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 10:41:53 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu To: "Zdzislaw A. Kaleta" cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: unnecessary files In-Reply-To: <8463.980508@polbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 May 1998, Zdzislaw A. Kaleta wrote: >Hello Freebsd-questions, > > Using FreeBSD from some time I have a problem. I suspect that when I > install new version of the program the files form old one stay on the > machine. I has such situation with perl 4 and perl 5 which create > problem with installing new KDE version so I have two question: > -How asure that old files are removed especially if I don't > use pkg_add > -how check which files are not necessary on the system. I highly recommend using pkg_add for _EVERYTHING_ you put on your FreeBSD system for this very reason. If you use pkg_add then things will be properly removed when you use pkg_delete. The only way to insure that files are removed if you don't use pkg_add is to get out your pen and paper and write down where everything goes. But this will not tell you if more than one piece of software needs a certain file. This is very hard to track manually. Also, FreeBSD is much better than M$ and software that runs on M$ for removing stuff correctly. Thank you, | Try some of this. It will show you where you're at. Jason Wells | http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message