-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:18:49AM -0500, Hans Deragon wrote: > Eric Siegerman wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:34:19AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: [...] > What if we reckognize some directories as to be never deleted? For > instance, /, /usr/bin, /usr/local, /var, /tmp, /bin, /sbin, /usr/share, and > many others would never be deleted, even if empty. Others not in the list > would be. This would be easy to implement.
I'd rather *tell* a computer what it *must* do, rather than letting it guess (wrong, likely). > This issue is that I do not find it clean when I install a package in a > special directory using --prefix, and then find all the directories still > there after uninstalling it. > > Note that I am not 100% backing up my own idea, since I do reckognize that > their might be some unexpected consequences of what I am proposing. But I > would like for the discussion to continue so that we either convince > ourselves that it is a bad idea, or maybe not. $(DESTDIR) also complicates the mapping between "we created it" and "we own it". > >Note that this issue is orthogonal to the question of creating a > >standalone uninstall script, which I actually find very > >appealing. > > Thanks for the support for my other idea. You are right, it is orthogonal > to the other and this is why I created two distinct emails. A standalone uninstall script sounds like a nice idea indeed. Unfortunately, though, I pull more of my hair out over packages which don't use automake *at all* (no DESTDIR support is my pet peeve), than over imperfections in the autotools. > >[1] By contrast, things like RPM *do* have enough information: if > > a directory is (or becomes) empty during uninstall, it should > > be removed iff it is mentioned in the RPM spec file. Note > > that the spec file is (intended to be) hand-written, or at > > least hand-tuned; so decisions about which directories to > > list in it are made by a human, not by code. > > Would there be a way to record this information? Maybe in the uninstall > script I suggest? If the package created the directory, it would record > this fact in the uninstall script. GCC: lib_SUBDIRS = gcc-lib automake: data_SUBDIRS = aclocal-1.8 automake-1.8 aclocal - -- http://voyager.abite.co.za/~berndj/ (up again for now - yay!) [I can't guarantee the integrity of my mail; I suspect my employer of mail tampering (adding disclaimers without my authorization). Please consider only signed text as my words. Verify if you can!] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFAUbxB/FmLrNfLpjMRAv9cAJwLxd0JvW2QJy7iP6s0W+r/KRL1lQCfdL6A U1rKILp7vPIztrOwIS/GUAo= =6r9W -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
