Subject: Re: Removing empty PLIST files?
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@netbsd.org>
From: Juan RP <juan@xtrarom.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 03/16/2007 15:50:44
On Friday 16 March 2007, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:45:22 +0100
>
> Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:40:16AM -0400, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > > Do we have any idea how many files this would get rid of?  I find it
> > > hard to believe that more than a small percentage are empty.  This just
> > > feels like optimizing before benchmarking.
> >
> > About 950.
>
> That many?  I'm surprised.  Still, that's less than 15% and they still
> have to be replaced by human time.  I'm not sure that I would feel it
> was a good tradeoff if it was my disk and sweat.  However, it's a
> volunteer project so it isn't my sweat to conserve.

I agree with Thomas, and IMHO it's a big win to remove empty PLIST files.

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