On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Daniel Reed wrote: > 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.
The reason why I mentioned /usr/local is because it is a shared directory. I could also have mentioned /usr. While it seems nice for a package to 100% clean-up after itself, a bug could cause the package uninstall to accidentally remove the operating system. It is not always easy to see if a directory is empty. For example, when NFS is being used, sometimes .nfs files are created in the directories, so the directory is not really empty. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
