On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Hisham Muhammad <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 19 January 2017 at 05:41, Anshuman Aggarwal
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I wonder if this cleanup of broken links should be done semi
> automatically
> > or be prompted to in the Compile or installer script. If gobo is to ever
> > have any wider an audience it needs to help the end user out.
> >
> > in a normal user system the RemoveBroken command should be harmless and
> > advanced tinkerers would know not to run it...thoughts?
>
> I thought about this before, but scanning the whole /System/Index tree
> is slow and not something that is usually needed. So it shouldn't be
> something that runs every time.
>
> As you said, doing semi automatically could be a good idea, but we
> need to think about when to trigger this. Perhaps add a --cleanup flag
> and suggest that when Compile fails during the install step?
>
>
Alternatively, we could bring Listener back from the dead and use it for
cleaning up broken links when any subdirectory of /Programs/*/ is removed.
I am going to work on it a bit today with hopes to have it fill that gap.

Lucas
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