Delete old iPhotos AND old linked files?

SO I upgraded to 10.10.3 today with the new Photos app.
My old photos configuration was using one library in iPhoto, but almost half of my library , from back when I first upgraded from PC to Mac, were in external folders and iPhoto just linked to the original photos in their external folders.  At the time I didn't understand that iPhoto would manage the library for me.  But it was too much of a hassle to fix, and the old iPhoto wouldn't let me consolidate everything into the library, therefore allowing me to remove my old photos from their external folders.
Now with the new Photos app, I consolidated all my pictures into the library.
I just want to confirm before I screw something up that I can now safely delete my old iPhoto app, the old iPhoto library, and all the old folders that held the original photos as those photos have now been copied into the Photos library.  Correct?

Make a bootable clone or another full backup of your macintosh HD, before you start deleting. You may not be able to ever reinstall iPhoto otherwise, since they have been pulled from the App Store.
If you should discover later, that the migration of your libraries has been faulty and you need to repeat it after repairing your libraries, you will be out of luck.
Remember, it is is just one day after the first release of Photos as version 1.0.  There are very likely some bugs and I would not burn all bridges before the library has been thoroughly tested and you are very confident, that this early Photos release is working well on your Mac.

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