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

[Michał Górny]

W dniu czw, 29.03.2018 o godzinie 11∶34 -0500, użytkownik William Hubbs
napisał:
> 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.
>

The developer is supposed to *look* at what the package installs.
If people just commit ebuilds based on 'Portage did not explode',
then maybe they shouldn't have commit access in the first place.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny