Novembre <novem...@gmail.com> writes: > By 'orphan' do you mean the unreferenced libraries that libchk has found on > my machine?
I mean it more loosely than that; I mean libraries that are really not needed anymore. Your use of libchk isn't really a guarantee that you can remove the library safely, although it will usually be the case. > I use portupgrade, and apparently, the upgrade process leaves them there. > I was also not aware of the 'make delete-old' step! I had never seen it > before. I did the > source upgrade of my machine following what is in the handbook, but i don't > remember > doing any 'make delete-old'... It's listed in the UPDATING file, which the handbook describes as required reading for updates. However, there's little harm from missing it. > What should I do with the unreferenced libraries and the ones on the > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ > directory? There's generally no need to do anything. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"