Hi Chris, Chris Cappuccio wrote on Thu, May 02, 2019 at 12:08:07PM -0700: > Ingo Schwarze [schwa...@usta.de] wrote:
>> It might be a good idea to do >> >> # rm -rf /usr/share/man/* /usr/X11R6/man/* >> >> immediately before an upgrade. > I go one step further, and rm -rf /usr/include /usr/share /usr/X11R6 > before a new snapshot is applied. This is a bit overkill That may well be adequate for your personal needs, though we certainly can't make that the default. In particular, you are deleting /usr/X11R6/lib/ which means that many installed packages stop working, and also private programs that you may have compiled from source. Sure, you should run "pkg_add -u" anyway, and also recompile whatever you compiled by hand. All the same, for the average user, the expectation is that doing an upgrade will usually *not* result in programs linked against old libraries being broken - except, of course, in the case of major flag days described in upgrade*.html and current.html. Yours, Ingo > but it's easier than trying to remember what subdirectories to > include during any given release transition.
