On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 21:20:04 +0200 Christoph Anton Mitterer
<cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
>
> Hey.
>
> On purging gnome-session-common the following happens:
> Purging configuration files for gnome-session-common (3.20.1-1) ...
> dpkg: warning: while removing gnome-session-common, directory
'/usr/share/gnome/applications' not empty so not removed
>
> # ls -al /usr/share/gnome/applications
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28 Apr 25 21:16 .
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110 Apr 18 16:13 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13 Apr 25 21:16 mimeinfo.cache
> # cat /usr/share/gnome/applications/mimeinfo.cache
> [MIME Cache]
> #
>
> Well not sure what placed that file there, at least I didn't do it
manually.
TBH I'm not sure what is generating this file.
The dpkg message is coming from the fact that the directory was once
owned by gnome-session package, but it's not the case anymore.
Just tried to install and purge the pkg in a chroot and this file is
definitely not created.
