On 2004-03-02T08:34-0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: ) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote: ) > When performing a "make uninstall", I notice that it only deletes the files, ) > not the empty directories. It would be nice that after removing a file, it ) > removes all the empty directories recursively. For example: ) If a package supports creating the directory /usr/local (as Automake ) does by default) should this directory be recursively removed if a ) package is uninstalled?
Not if it is non-empty after everything subordinate to it installed as part of the package has been removed. -- Daniel Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://naim-users.org/nmlorg/ http://naim.n.ml.org/ "I don't believe in making something user friendly just for the sake of being user friendly, though; if you're decreasing the users' available power, you're not really being all that friendly to them."
