Improve OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc

[Peter Pentchev]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:01:45AM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 10/4/10, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander at leidinger.net> wrote:
> > Quoting Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> (from Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:53:26
> > +0000):
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >> diff --git a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> index d3aa4b2..2123107 100644
> >> --- a/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> +++ b/tools/build/mk/OptionalObsoleteFiles.inc
> >> @@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man8/authpf.8.gz
> >>  .endif
> >>
> >>  .if ${MK_BIND} == no
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/470.status-named
> >
> > If bind is installed from ports instead, this file could be useful, isn't
> > it?
> >
> >>  OLD_FILES+=usr/bin/dig
> >>  OLD_FILES+=usr/bin/host
> >>  OLD_FILES+=usr/bin/nslookup
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> @@ -1976,6 +1998,11 @@ OLD_FILES+=usr/share/man/man8/rtquery.8.gz
> >>  .endif
> >>
> >>  .if ${MK_SENDMAIL} == no
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/150.clean-hoststat
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/210.backup-aliases
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/440.status-mailq
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/460.status-mail-rejects
> >> +OLD_FILES+=etc/periodic/daily/500.queuerun
> >>  OLD_FILES+=bin/rmail
> >>  OLD_FILES+=usr/bin/vacation
> >>  OLD_FILES+=usr/include/libmilter/mfapi.h
> >
> > At least status-mailq is still useful with other MTAs, e.g. if you use
> > postfix (and assuming the mailwrapper is configured correctly), this
> > should still work. Depending on the setup of the aliases,
> > backup-aliases will still work too. I haven't checked for the other
> > ones.
> 
> If you want to keep some "old" files, you just need to press `n' instead of `y'
> when deleting files. You are not forced to run make delete-old at all.

On the other hand, doing this (skipping those files) on each and every system
update (say, on a development or testing machine) could get a bit... boring -
not to mention that at some point you'll learn to "oh, just say no", and then
forget to remove something important.

G'luck,
Peter

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Do you think anybody has ever had *precisely this thought* before?
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