On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700 Drake Wyrm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing > > an empty directory, but I could be wrong... > > That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the > post-merge clean phase. Were it not for the .keep files, portage would > cheerfully remove any empty directories the first time the package was > upgraded. Wouldn't it be possible for portage to just compare a dir in live filesystem and in the emerge image, and if the dir in image contains .keep file, the live dir wouldn't get deleted? -- Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <ticho at gentoo dot org> Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64
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