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On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 |
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Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing |
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> > an empty directory, but I could be wrong... |
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> That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the |
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> post-merge clean phase. Were it not for the .keep files, portage would |
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> cheerfully remove any empty directories the first time the package was |
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> upgraded. |
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Wouldn't it be possible for portage to just compare a dir in live filesystem |
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and in the emerge image, and if the dir in image contains .keep file, the live |
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dir wouldn't get deleted? |
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Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <ticho at gentoo dot org> |
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Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64 |
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