From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 7 18: 5:46 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 DCB5937B406; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:05:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E2D43E42; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9815epk073898; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:05:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 19:05:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20021007.190527.83978649.imp@bsdimp.com> To: keramida@freebsd.org Cc: archie@dellroad.org, tlambert2@mindspring.com, grog@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do we still need portmap(8)? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> References: <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com> <200210072214.g97MEe5M058451@arch20m.dellroad.org> <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 In message: <20021007233346.GB1408@hades.hell.gr> Giorgos Keramidas writes: : On 2002-10-07 15:14, Archie Cobbs wrote: : > Anything that gets overwritten during the normal install process : > is already taken care of. We're just trying to get rid of files : > which are not installed by 'make installword' but used to be once. : > : > I.e., if a file is not installed by 'make installworld' then by : > definition it's not required for a correctly functioning system. : : This might cause problems with ports that ``overwrite'' base-system : files. I hate ports the idea of ports writing anything outside of : ${LOCALBASE}, but we already have some of those IIRC. Yes. Clearly, there are some files that should always be deleted (stale binaries and header files), some files that should often be deleted (those things replaced by ports under the same path, for example), and some things we'd want to the user to removed (eg, libfoo.so.N-1) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message