[ports-i386@pointyhat.freebsd.org: linux_base-8-8.0_12 failed on i386 6]

[John E Hein]

Alexander Leidinger wrote at 12:20 +0100 on Jan 28, 2006:
 > Yes, but if a program expects an empty directory to be there, this will
 > introduce a problem.

Sure, but that's certainly no worse than the current situation (rm -rf).


 > I'd rater use @dirrmtry in pkg-plist for those dirs which
 > linux_base creates.  I try to get time to change it like this this
 > weekend.

That sounds even better.  This port should probably used rmdirs in an
@unexec in the pkg-plist a long time ago.

If we are going in this direction, a convenience target to help
automate adding the appropriate entries to pkg-plist for when this
port is updated in the future would be helpful for the maintainer, too
(similar to, as you know, the new-plist target in
x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2/Makefile).

Sorry, I don't have a patch for that at the moment, however.