On 01/10/2018 12:39 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 01/10/2018 03:13 PM, Michał Górny wrote: >> Remove empty directories in install-qa-check phase in order to prevent >> Portage from installing them, and therefore from developers relying >> on them being installed. > > This is going to break a lot of packages whose build systems create e.g. > /var/lib/foo and do nothing with it immediately. The ebuild should be > calling keepdir on those paths, but how would anyone know that?
If we consider that portage already removes these directories if they are still empty when the package is re-merged or upgraded, then maybe the risk is low enough? -- Thanks, Zac
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