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Date:      Mon, 07 Oct 2002 13:43:47 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, grog@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Do we still need portmap(8)?
Message-ID:  <3DA1F203.6CD50B5C@mindspring.com>
References:  <200210071735.g97HZokf056512@arch20m.dellroad.org>

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Archie Cobbs wrote:
> M. Warner Losh writes:
> > : It's been a while since we've used portmap(8) on -CURRENT systems.  Is
> > : it still needed, or can it be removed completely?  At the very least,
> > : the man page should stop claiming that it's necessary to run NFS.
> >
> > I think that we need a mtree.obsolete that goes through and deletes
> > these sorts of things as part of installworld/upgrade scripts.
> 
> I totally agree.. I was thinking that mergemaster could have a
> 'hit list' of files that can be been removed.

How will this work for "perl", which is not removed, but is instead
replaced with a stub shell script?

I guess you can live with binaries linked against older versions
of shared libraries suddenly not functioning...

-- Terry

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