On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:23, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Roman Kyrylych <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Shouldn't /var/empty be created by filesystem package, >> instead of by packages that require it? (like openssh and openntpd) > > It is.
It is not: $ pacman -Ql filesystem | grep empty $ > The problem is these packages "install" it in their tarball, so > when you remove one of them and pacman sees an empty directory left > behind, it thinks it is no longer necessary and removes it. Yes, I know this, but what I suggest is to fix in in a different way: installing it as part of filesystem and fix packages to not install it. Thomas' addition of /var/empty existence check is okay though, because sshd is important enough to be working regardless of /var/empty issues. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)
