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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:00:04 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
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> will be a lot of binaries with names that just don't make sense or
> correlate to anything. Good luck uninstalling a package or cleaning up
> when you upgrade one and find the new version doesn't install all the
> same files so you're left with, for example, stray header files which
> could screw up future compiles. Actually I use git on /usr/local which
> both gives me an uninstall option and (with some rather long options)
> a list of files installed with each commit. "All" I have to do is
> remember to commit after each make install.
>
> I don't know if history came up because venti could offer similar to
> what I use git for, but that would only work if you installed only one
> package per day. Now on Gnunix if you can get an app going with just
> one package install you can call yourself lucky!

replica already tracks files and allows for uninstall.

- erik