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

[Michał Górny]

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'.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny