| From: | Gerald B. Mathias |
| Date: | 1 Feb 2000 at 00:51:31 |
| Subject: | Re: Knowing what to discard safely |
From: "Gerald B. Mathias" <mathias@hawaii.edu>
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Leon Davidoff <leond@paralynx.com> wrote:
> Subject: Re: Memory usage
> On 28-Jan-00, Alex wrote:
> A> A4: Occasionally browse thru ENVARC: - often there's a lot of old config
> A> files and crap still rotting there, from programs you've deleted almost
> A> ages ago. :)
>
> I've cleaned a few things out. There's more I need to do. There's some stuff I'm not sure if I need... ...I guess I can restore from back-up if it turns out I need it.
I've often thought that, had I created the universe, Install would add a
comment (filenote) to each file telling what program it was being installed
for. Then one might delete with confidence.
The only problem I can think of is when a new installation updates a file--
a .library, perhaps--that was installed for something else one is keeping,
but I don't think it would be a major thing to have Install *edit* filenotes.
Bart Mathias
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