Subject: Re: Getting rid of pth ?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2003 17:48:34
In message <87el70g8mk.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>
>Eric Jacoboni <jaco@teaser.fr> writes:
>> Since the nathan merge, we do have native threads, great! Now, what i
>> wanted to know is if there is some reason to keep pth installed?
>
>No. In fact, you're better off removing your packages and rebuilding
>-- pth will automatically go away if /usr/include/pthreads.h is detected.
>

Right.  I did a 'pkg_delete' pth, saw what was using it, and applied 
the algorithm recursively.

Of course, I then had to wait while Mozilla and much of Gnome (needed 
by Gabber) recompiled.  That takes a while...


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