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build.7: Improve make delete-old example
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Authored by ziaee on Dec 4 2025, 9:11 PM.
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Be more explicit that deleting old files and libraries needs to be
really after you're rebooted a third time and you're really actually
sure your applications aren't using old libs, following irc discussion.

Also adjust an example slightly to fit on 80 character console.

MFC after: 3 days

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ziaee requested review of this revision.Dec 4 2025, 9:11 PM
fuz added inline comments.
share/man/man7/build.7
1115

Should be consistent, also check for additional occurrences.

switch examples consistently to /client, thanks @fuz!

share/man/man7/build.7
1025

I would be tempted to leave make delete-old here and only defer make delete-old-libs to the new paragraph. In practice I always run make delete-old right after etcupdate -B. It's only make delete-old-libs that I defer until after updating packages.