On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:51:57AM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > If you do this - any apps which are linked against the older versions > will > likely stop working. > > the reason "upgrade" leaves them lying around is so that your > applications which > were built using an older version of the OS will continue to get the correct > share library. > > My suggestion is don't do this - if what you really want is a clean > system, > consider doing "install" instead of upgrade and reinstalling your > applications from > versions compiled on the version of OpenBSD you are installing > > -Bob >
These days, if you only have packages installed, and they're recent, they should register every shared library they need. We could have a fairly simple tool which would remove those old libs, after validating no other package leaves them...
