RFC: automated way of removing old base system files (only for a recent 6-current!)

[Thomas Hurst]

* Alexander Leidinger (Alexander at Leidinger.net) wrote:

> But mtree doesn't has an option to ask the user if he really wants to
> delete those files (at least it's not very obvious if you fast-read
> the man-page). Even if they are old base system files, I don't want to
> just remove them without explicit permission. Better safe than sorry.
> But maybe I'm paranoid (at least for files and directories, but I
> strongly discourage the automated removal of old libs).

Can you move them to another directory like portupgrade?  Then just
leave it up to the user to clean out lib/compat/old or so?

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Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst
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