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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:13:22 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do we still need portmap(8)?
Message-ID:  <p05111700b9ca81bc52fd@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200210092109.g99L92GI072458@orthanc.ab.ca>
References:  <200210092109.g99L92GI072458@orthanc.ab.ca>

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At 3:09 PM -0600 10/9/02, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>     Danny> And a list of files to delete would have saved many emails
>     Danny> about the GCC being broken when the old headers just needed
>     Danny> to be deleted.
>
>We could add 'rm -rf /usr/include/*' at a suitable point inside
>the installworld target.

Installers should not be blindly removing entire directory structures.

It would be much friendlier to simply move them out of the way, in
case there happens to be an important (to the user) file inside that
directory tree.  Or maybe tar.gz them up, if you're concerned about
disk space or inodes.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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