On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Is it actually required to be completely empty? I thought it was just assumed to be empty, but that wasn't a requisite
