Re: [gentoo-dev] find ${D} -delete in src_install() ?

[Peter Stuge]

Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > Is it really acceptable for an ebuild to delete all files in $D
> > which have a particular name?
>
> Of course, why wouldn't it be? $D is the image directory of the
> package before it's merged to actual filesystem,

Ah yes! Of course - no problem!


> and even if it weren't, it specifies -name as well, so it's double-safe

If $D was in my root I sure would not want ebuilds to randomly delete
files only based on filename.


Thanks for the explanation!

//Peter