On 01/10/2018 03:55 PM, Zac Medico wrote: >> >> 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? >
Does it? (Are we talking about the same thing?) For example, the nagios-core build system creates a bunch of empty directories under /var/nagios: $ find /var/nagios /var/nagios /var/nagios/rw /var/nagios/home /var/nagios/spool /var/nagios/spool/checkresults /var/nagios/archives Re-emerging the same version of nagios-core doesn't kill them off.
