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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4 directory
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:40:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090309134043.253dffa4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79e3aefb0903090556j2110fe56od63700110aed3233@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:56:22 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote:

> The only remaining contents was two broken symlinks in the
> site-packages directory. I proceeded and manually removed the
> directory. I'm not expecting any problems, was just wondering why
> portage didn't remove this empty directories for me? Guess the broken
> symlinks may have played a role.

Portage won't remove non-empty directories or files it did not create.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-09 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05 13:25 [gentoo-user] python2.4 directory Dirk Uys
2009-03-05 13:29 ` Evgeniy Bushkov
2009-03-05 13:45   ` Daniel Pielmeier
2009-03-09 12:56     ` Dirk Uys
2009-03-09 13:40       ` Neil Bothwick [this message]

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