On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 15:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton <DougB_at_freebsd.org> wrote: > There was a discussion of this recently, and the conclusion was more or > less that doing this in an automated fashion is frought with danger, > since you don't know for sure what else besides system components the > user has put in the various directories. > > I've been using the following combination of a bash function (that could > just as easily be its own script) and a script I call > after_installworld. [script which does the right thing] > This combination keeps things squeaky clean for me. Yes, it does it for you (and for everyone else who does the right thing), but I've seen abuse of your system directories to many times, so this would perhaps screw some of our users. So I don't think we should add something like you do or something like David does into installworld. My snipped just looks if there are libs in /usr/lib which also are in /lib and removes them from /usr/lib. That's one specific thing we know we have to do now. I don't insist of adding it to installworld, but we should at least add something into UPDATING which tells the user to clean up his /usr/lib after we added /lib (and my snipped automates this). Bye, Alexander. -- Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7Received on Mon Sep 01 2003 - 01:18:20 UTC
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