Thursday, April 21, 2022

Re: Howto do "a detailed cleanup with the aid of the sysclean package"?

On Apr 21 11:32, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> Many people got burned because we used to make /usr a certain size, then
> we switched to clang.

I make the effort to review this file prior to upgrades in keeping with
defaults.

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/sbin/disklabel/editor.c

> I've heard of experts misusing sysclean, so I very much suspect there
> are many users who have misused it, destroyed their system, and been to
> shy to complain.

I made the mistake once of removing a lib file sysclean mentioned at a
time when -beta snapshot packages were not in sync due to something
failing to build in ports. It resulted in me having broken packages
until they were updated to base libs. I am way more cautious from that
lesson.

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