From: marduk <marduk@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] .keep files
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 15:38:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116707899.20765.0.camel@blackwidow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050521222822.43a8e905@thelair.ynet.sk>
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On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there
> to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be
> possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are
> merged to / ?
>
> Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to me?
>
I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing
an empty directory, but I could be wrong...
-m
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-21 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-21 20:28 [gentoo-dev] .keep files Andrej Kacian
2005-05-21 20:38 ` marduk [this message]
2005-05-22 0:34 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-05-22 0:37 ` Drake Wyrm
2005-05-22 19:19 ` Andrej Kacian
2005-05-22 21:31 ` Marius Mauch
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