At 12:37 AM +0200 12/22/03, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >About those old files, I think any old file which doesn't >exist in newer release does not only waste space and cause >confusion. Also it might cause security problems. This is a very reasonable position. It is such a reasonable idea that this topic reappears every few months... :-) >I often thought of a way to remove older files. The problem is that the general solution is much harder to do than it first appears. It is one thing to come up with a solution that works well for what "you" (ie, any one developer) need, but it is much more challenging to come up with a solution that everyone can always use, for every upgrade, and that they can rely on. You can not have installworld just blindly removing files. That tactic *will* cause trouble. The fact that this issue keeps coming up is a good indication that we need to do something. Every once-in-while I try my own hand at implementing some solution, but so far I have not come up with anything that I am 100% happy with. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad_at_gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad_at_freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih_at_rpi.eduReceived on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 16:48:57 UTC
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