Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] install-qa-check: New QA check/cleanup for empty directories
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:34:32
Message-Id: 1517330064.20159.0.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3] install-qa-check: New QA check/cleanup for empty directories by Michael Orlitzky
1 W dniu wto, 30.01.2018 o godzinie 11∶08 -0500, użytkownik Michael
2 Orlitzky napisał:
3 > On 01/30/2018 02:23 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > Warn about empty directories installed to /var
5 >
6 > Why only warn about /var, considering that FEATURES=strict-keepdir will
7 > delete the others? People will probably assume that if their package
8 > throws no warnings, it's strict-keepdir-safe.
9 >
10
11 Because non-/var stuff will have a lot of false positives, and people
12 will start keepdir-ing everything. Tools are there to help people, not
13 to think for them.
14
15 --
16 Best regards,
17 Michał Górny