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On 01/10/2018 12:39 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 01/10/2018 03:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> Remove empty directories in install-qa-check phase in order to prevent |
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>> Portage from installing them, and therefore from developers relying |
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>> on them being installed. |
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> This is going to break a lot of packages whose build systems create e.g. |
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> /var/lib/foo and do nothing with it immediately. The ebuild should be |
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> calling keepdir on those paths, but how would anyone know that? |
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If we consider that portage already removes these directories if they |
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are still empty when the package is re-merged or upgraded, then maybe |
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the risk is low enough? |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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