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Authored by: SOX on Oct 08, '03 12:16:04PM

A few comments.
1) be sure to download the combo update before you revert your system. On my computer Safari would not function after I reverted to 10.2.0. Apparently the version I had installed required some pathes to be installedby software update to run. (And it did run after I completed the update).

2) the line cat > ./compare.pl is not part of the perl script. its the line used to create the perl script.

3)Some people might not regard the receipts as "junk" and want to keep them for their non-system-installed packages.

After you run the compare.pl on all your previous folders they will occupy much less space and so you may want to keep them around for a week or so to make sure you did not miss anything important.

The thing I did not expect was how much better my computer runs now. it boots quickly and is much more responsive. and I seem to be getting less unexpected quits. I suspect that OS X is just getting to be old enough now that we will start seeing creeping system degeneration and that we may in deed need to do fresh re-installs periodically to blow out the bit rot. Really there's no reason to exepct we wont be getting bit rot it seems to happen to all computers over time.



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