Wednesday, December 01, 2021

Re: libdmx removal incomplete?

On 2021/12/01 02:05, Alexander wrote:
> On 2021/11/30 8:14, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2021-11-29, Amit Kulkarni <amit.obsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 5:17 PM Alexander <xan.abo@posteo.org> wrote:
> > >> Just to gauge what to expect from this and whether I did this wrong:
> > >> After configuring /etc/sysclean.ignore I get 3382 files of which 3274
> > >> are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. Are numbers this large to be expected?
> > >
> > > 3382 files is too large.
> >
> > That seems about right for the removed font variants to me. You can't
> > judge by the number of files, only the filenames.
> >
> > *If* you don't compile your own software from outside ports/packages, the
> > files under /usr listed in sysclean's default output (no -a flag) is good.
> > I do review manually before rm'ing but I have *never* had it suggesT
> > removing something under /usr that is required. Files outside /usr
> > need more care.
> >
> This is probably a stupid question but how do you review them manually?
> I have a couple files that are manpages, that's easy. signify-keys, too.
> There is some sgi stuff, also easy, retirement is known.
> Same goes for switchd-related things.
> But what about the rest? Assuming you don't just know everything about
> those files already, do you find(1)/grep(1) through the source tree and
> commit messages or is there a different way?

I just scan through the filenames quickly and see if I think they're likely
to cause a problem. I'm doing that anyway for the files outside of /usr
and I read source-changes so I know what to expect.

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