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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 11:31:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180401113158.408b28c0@snowtea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180331194656.GA13748@undo-autkin>

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 20:46:56 +0100
Andrey Utkin <andrey_utkin@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Right, I am not aware why PMS has left this explicitly undefined.

Because when we wrote the spec, Portage's actual behaviour on empty
directories was extremely tricky to define and depended upon things
like whether you were upgrading or reinstalling a package.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-01 10:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-29 14:39 [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D} William Hubbs
2018-03-29 14:47 ` Michał Górny
2018-03-29 15:15   ` Fabian Groffen
2018-03-29 15:26     ` William Hubbs
2018-03-29 15:28   ` Alec Warner
2018-03-29 15:47     ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-03-29 15:57       ` Alec Warner
2018-03-29 16:12         ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-03-31 19:46         ` Andrey Utkin
2018-03-31 21:00           ` Michał Górny
2018-04-01 10:31           ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2018-03-29 15:57       ` William Hubbs
2018-03-29 16:24         ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-03-29 16:34           ` William Hubbs
2018-03-29 17:00             ` Michał Górny
2018-03-29 21:12               ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.

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