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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 11:47:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c34e5458-42d4-720d-2490-9cc3e8801dd5@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAr7Pr-4102ns6jpW4FDnR0yOwUsKy0WK6az-BPw+LgLC4o7Ow@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/29/2018 11:28 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
> 
> Is there any particular reason we need to remove them?
> 

The PMS says that empty directories are undefined, so the portage
behavior of installing them and leaving them alone leads to
incompatibilities. Ebuilds rely on the portage behavior, and if another
PM (within its rights) deletes them, then the package breaks with the
non-portage PM.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-29 15:47 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 [this message]
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
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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