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From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
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	Re: [FreeBSD-rc] Re: RFC: Removal of the old rc system from -current
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On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:53:13PM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 03:46:08PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > > We're also starting to see some confusion on the part of users about
> > > having both systems on disk.
> >
> > Time to teach mergemaster about files that are now stale, so it can
> > offer to remove (or archive) them for the user?
>
> It would be nice to teach make intallworld to remove stale files from
> the base as well.

There is an enormous amount of discussion about that point in the -current
archives. Suffice it to say, it's not nearly as easy as it sounds.

Doug

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