[FreeBSD-rc] Re: RFC: Removal of the old rc system from -current

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 10:34:34AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the pointers; I think I really need start reading current@
nevertheless some of my friendly committers said it turned to chat@
rather recently.  ;-)

Since of my perfectionism, I might consider doing some work (if not
removing the issue completely at some point) in this area.

./danfe