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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