On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:00:14PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > 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? > > Absolutely not! (I rather suspect the question was rhetorical, > but I'm answering it anyway :-)
Nor will it, because /usr/local will never be empty. > Thus, if I'm right that Automake doesn't know which directories > the package owns, it should should err on the side of caution: it > should *not* try to delete any empty directories at uninstall > time. Neither should Automake try to guess -- guesses involving > the "rm" command, especially as root, are a really dangerous > idea! That's why you use the rmdir command. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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