Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] stale files after update

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Yes the current recommended method for doing such things is `make
> clean`.  [...]

OK.  Please document that after some `make update` calls the necessary
space on the hard disk in mxe's `usr` tree can increase enormously
since old stuff doesn't get removed.

> We have no plans for doing things like file lists as file lists
> would dramatically increase the complexity and decrease the
> maintainability of MXE, even for auto-generated file lists.

Yes, this is what I called 'unstable' :-)

> Regarding the suggestion of using rpm, I personally do not think
> that is a good idea.

Why not?  It should only handle the part mxe will never be able to
handle, namely the cleaning up mxe's `usr` hierarchy.  It could also
be a helper tool to check the integrity of this tree so that a user
isn't forced to compile mxe from scratch in case something fails.

> If anything, we would be using a more source-oriented package
> managers like ebuild or pacman, [...]

Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of those packages.  Personally, I
don't care what package managing system gets used, as long as it is
able to remove outdated files in mxe's `usr` tree :-)

> but the simplicity of GNU Make is what keeps me as well as many
> users using MXE in the first place.

I fully agree, and this should be retained.


    Werner