[Gnu-arch-users] Deleting at archive I created by mistake?

[James Ashley]

Howdy, everyone!

Okay, I've been searching the list for a couple of hours now, and I
haven't found the answer, so I figured I'd break down and ask.  Esp.
since (I hope) it's so minor.

I just moved to tla from cvs, and I'm trying to get comfortable with
it.  I have 2 specific questions, both of which I *think* I know "the"
answer to, but I wanted to be safe before I started messing with it.

1) I created my first archive with a couple of categories a couple of
weeks ago.  Each category is an almost completely unrelated project.  Is
it generally considered a "better practice" to split those categories
into different archives?  From the little research I've done so far, it
looks pretty trivial to do this if a reason ever comes up, but I just
wanted others' opinions.

2) I started to work on another project earlier, broke out the
"cookbook" I used to add the first 2 projects, and made a new archive as
a subdirectory of the first archive.  What I meant to do was make a new
category.  I haven't done anything at all since then. I can't find any
information about deleting an archive, except one old thread about
problems a developer had after doing so (and it wasn't a situation like
this at all).  Would it be safe for me to just delete that directory and
forget it, or is there metadata stored somewhere I'm not seeing?  It
seems as though arch has to keep some sort of record somewhere about
which directory belongs to which archive.

Ah, I just found that.  ~/.arch-param/=locations.  I'm glad I didn't
just delete the directory.  So what's the proper way to make arch
"forget" that archive?

TIA,
James