On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
And then defeat the purpose of having a completely empty directory? -Dan
