Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: empty directories in ${D}

[Fabian Groffen]

On 29-03-2018 16:47:51 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> W dniu czw, 29.03.2018 o godzinie 09∶39 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs
> napisał:
> > All,
> >
> > I just happened to notice the following warning from portage when
> > bumping dhcpcd.
> >
> > > One or more empty directories installed to /var:
> > >  /var/lib/dhcpcd
> > > If those directories need to be preserved, please make sure to create
> > > or mark them for keeping using 'keepdir'. Future versions of Portage
> > > will strip empty directories from installation image.
> >
> > If we are going to require emptty  directories to be marked with
> > keepdir, I think we should hard fail the emerge rather than quietly
> > strip the empty directories. If we just strip the directories, this
> > will, more than likely, lead to broken packages. In the case of dhcpcd,
> > the upstream build system installs the /var/lib/dhcpcd directory, then
> > dhcpcd writes to the directory.
> >
>
> Are you saying that dozens of packages should suddenly start failing
> for users so that developers would feel more obliged to fix them?
> Provided that the packages are still maintained, and it won't be
> 'hey, we just made it impossible to install this package, maybe someone
> will fix it one day'.

I agree, packages shouldn't suddenly start failing.  Not during install,
not during runtime either.  For changes like this EAPIs were invented.

Fabian

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Fabian Groffen
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