On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:32:04 Brendan Long wrote:
On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:
One very simple solution would be to never delete anything named /usr/lib/*.so* unless you really have to. That requires one regexp match. A hack, not perfect but it would help.
Ciao,
Except then you'd annoy everyone who wants their package manager to work properly. When I update a package I expect it to clean up after itself.
+1 Lets say I keep old libraries around outside packman(because pacman ignored them as per the proposal), who and when are they going to be cleaned up? My /usr/lib is 1.6G. If it is not cleaned up, it would baloon in less then 3 months enough to make LFS an attractive choice. Its simple. Update complete system once -or-twice a month. Its ok if you upgrade/install individual apps as needed. But a complete upgrade keeps the system clean and I love that about arch. -- Regards Shridhar