On Mon, 14 Dec 2020, Peter Kjellerstedt wrote:

> Say we have a recipe that creates an empty /etc/foo directory. Now we
> want to add a new file in that directory /etc/foo/bar and package it as
> ${PN}-bar. This means the creation of the /etc/foo directory is moved
> from the ${PN} package to the ${PN}-bar package. Is there any way to
> make ${PN} continue to create an empty /etc/foo, or is the only
> alternative to introduce an /etc/foo/.dummy and package it in ${PN}?

  it strikes me that creating an empty directory for no other reason
than creating an empty directory is less-than-optimal design. the
proper approach is that all file installation should create
directories as needed.

rday
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