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On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote: |
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> Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there |
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> to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be |
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> possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are |
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> merged to / ? |
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> Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to me? |
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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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