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Andrej Kacian wrote: |
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> On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 |
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> Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing |
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>>>an empty directory, but I could be wrong... |
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>>That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the |
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>>post-merge clean phase. Were it not for the .keep files, portage would |
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>>cheerfully remove any empty directories the first time the package was |
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>>upgraded. |
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> Wouldn't it be possible for portage to just compare a dir in live filesystem |
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> and in the emerge image, and if the dir in image contains .keep file, the live |
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> dir wouldn't get deleted? |
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That dir isn't available at that point. And even if it would be, won't |
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help as directories can be owned by multiple packages, and you |
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definitely don't want to cross-check all installed packages for file |
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ownership. |
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Marius |
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