On 2019-05-02, Consus <con...@ftml.net> wrote: > On 10:27 Thu 02 May, Markus Hennecke wrote: >> Am 02.05.2019 um 09:52 schrieb Consus: >> > I've upgraded my systems from 6.4 to 6.5 without a glitch, but I see >> > that /etc/networks and some other files (like malloc.conf.5) are still >> > present, although there is no use for them in the new release. >> > >> > Is there a reason why these files are not listed in "FIles to remove"? >> > Is there a way to track them? It's not like something gonna break, but >> > old configuration files (and manual pages) lying around can make >> > someone's life harder during the debug session. >> >> Take a look at the sysutils/sysclean port. > > That's pretty much how I discovered this. But I want to know the > "official" way. Maybe there is a reason why e.g. perl files are to be > removed, but man pages are not. > >
The upgrade notes only list files which are likely to cause a problem if they're left lying around.
