Re: CML1 cleanup patch, take 3

[Eric S. Raymond]

Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>:
> Wow, your script was longer than your patch :)

But independent of the version/patchlevel, which was the point of shipping it.

If CML2 is adopted and I become the config system maimtainer,
symbolreplace is one of a number of small tools I'll drop into the scripts
directory to address the namespace-management problem.  At over 1800
symbols, power tools are needed.  Even just garbage-collecting unused
symbols isn't trivial.
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