I apologize for the long hiatus. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:32:01PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:40:40PM +0200, Nils Steinger wrote: > > On my system, man8dir didn't exist prior to the installation, so I > > thought it would be reasonable to have the uninstallation routine remove > > it. > > According to the FHS [1] the manX directories do not have to exsit, so > this part shall stay. > > [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES > and then note #32 > > > bindir and libdir will exist by default on most systems, so that's a > > different case… > > So, should we really keep the directories around, even if they were > > created by the installation and are now empty (if they aren't, they > > won't be removed anyway)? > > But we don't track if the directories were created by the installation > or not. Normally the directories would exist anyway (/usr or /usr/local > as prefix) and are expected to exist at the locations. Installation to > arbitraty directory works, but managing the directories is IMO up to the > user. > > So are you ok with keeping bindir and libdir only (ie. removing only > man8dir)?
Yes, that should be sensible. I've updated my patch accordingly and resubmitted it few minutes ago. Regards, Nils -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
