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On 03/29/2018 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote: |
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>> The PMS says that empty directories are undefined, so the portage |
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>> behavior of installing them and leaving them alone leads to |
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>> incompatibilities. Ebuilds rely on the portage behavior, and if another |
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>> PM (within its rights) deletes them, then the package breaks with the |
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>> non-portage PM. |
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> Maybe so, but you just made the argument for doing nothing different in |
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> current eapis and proposing stripping empty directories in eapi 7. |
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> However, this should be stripping empty directories combined with |
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> failing the emerge. |
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If we strip them only in EAPI=7, then that still leaves all of these |
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packages broken with respect to the PMS in the other EAPIs. |
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Stripping the empty directories isn't my favorite approach, but leaving |
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things broken looks bad on paper too. |
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