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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] install-qa-check: Do not install empty directories
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:40:01
Message-Id: 76aad0fe-5cf9-6be8-3ae1-f883fb3b0345@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v2] install-qa-check: Do not install empty directories by "Michał Górny"
1 On 01/10/2018 03:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Remove empty directories in install-qa-check phase in order to prevent
3 > Portage from installing them, and therefore from developers relying
4 > on them being installed.
5
6 This is going to break a lot of packages whose build systems create e.g.
7 /var/lib/foo and do nothing with it immediately. The ebuild should be
8 calling keepdir on those paths, but how would anyone know that?

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