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

[Alec Warner]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47 AM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:

> On 03/29/2018 11:28 AM, Alec Warner wrote:
> >
> > Is there any particular reason we need to remove them?
> >
>
> 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.
>
>
So we could simply change the PMS to keep the empty directories?

Why is removing them *better* is my question.