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

[William Hubbs]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:24:38PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 03/29/2018 11:57 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >>
> >> The PMS says that empty directories are undefined, so the portage
> >> behavior of installing them and leaving them alone leads to
> >> incompatibilities. Ebuilds rely on the portage behavior, and if another
> >> PM (within its rights) deletes them, then the package breaks with the
> >> non-portage PM.
> >
> > Maybe so, but you just made the argument for doing nothing different in
> > current eapis and proposing stripping empty directories in eapi 7.
> > However, this should be stripping empty directories combined with
> > failing the emerge.
>
> If we strip them only in EAPI=7, then that still leaves all of these
> packages broken with respect to the PMS in the other EAPIs.
>
> Stripping the empty directories isn't my favorite approach, but leaving
> things broken looks bad on paper too.

If we are going to strip the empty directories, we should hard fail the
emerge at the same time. Otherwise there is no way to know whether the
package we successfully install will now run.

William