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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:51:44 +0100
From:      Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC/HEADSUP] portmaster default -w (preserve shared libraries)
Message-ID:  <20121212075144.ca3881329b4aa461c38c942e@alkumuna.eu>
In-Reply-To: <50C7576C.5040100@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <50C7576C.5040100@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:55:24 -0600
Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@freebsd.org> wrote:

> (As maintainer) I'm proposing to make -w the default for portmaster.
> This will preserve old shared libraries when upgrading. This helps 2 things:
> 
> [...]

I have a few question about what happens if you always use this flag: 
* Do you keep every version of the shlibs you ever built on your system?
* Are there any method to clean the unused ones?
* What do we do about libraries versions that have security issues and that we need to get out asap?

Regards,

-- 
Matthieu Volat <mazhe@alkumuna.eu>



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