On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700
Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com> wrote:

> > I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing
> > an empty directory, but I could be wrong...
> 
> That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the
> post-merge clean phase. Were it not for the .keep files, portage would
> cheerfully remove any empty directories the first time the package was
> upgraded.

Wouldn't it be possible for portage to just compare a dir in live filesystem
and in the emerge image, and if the dir in image contains .keep file, the live
dir wouldn't get deleted?

-- 
Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <ticho at gentoo dot org>
Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64