Pádraig Brady wrote:
But I'd be worried about using rm -p generally, as I might delete an empty dir that didn't belong to me. Though if passed relative paths that would be alleviated I suppose.
It's trivial to protect a precious directory, by dropping a file in that directory. Besides, not creating missing directory levels in an installer is poor practice, isn't it?
The package above should really be calling rmdir -p on relative dirs created previously created with install -d or mkdir -p.
Sure, that's debatable. But I'm not talking about uninstall issues only. Think of the example with the tarball for example.
I think the assumption that an empty directory just wastes an inode is relatively safe. And nobody would be forced to use that option.
I'll think some more about this,
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