On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Roman Kyrylych <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Or just install /var/empty/.$pkgname or something silly like that
