[arch-general] A suggestion for the devs regarding rebuilds

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Tuesday 09 February 2010 08:32:04 Brendan Long wrote:
> On 02/08/2010 07:50 PM, fons at 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.

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Regards 
 Shridhar