[gentoo-dev] find ${D} -delete in src_install() ?

[Peter Stuge]

I came across this in sys-power/pm-utils-1.4.1-r2.ebuild src_install():

# NetworkManager 0.8.2 is handling suspend/resume on it's own with UPower
find "${D}" -type f -name 55NetworkManager -exec rm -f '{}' +

This seems baroquely reckless, but it has been like that since 2010
with one revbump and a bunch of stabilizations, so maybe it's fine?

Is it really acceptable for an ebuild to delete all files in $D
which have a particular name?


//Peter