On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/02/11 20:40, Xavier Chantry wrote: >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Allan McRae<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> I just noticed this: >>> >>>> pacman -Qk | grep "^warning" >>> >>> warning: filesystem: /opt/ (No such file or directory) >>> warning: hal: /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ (No such file >>> or >>> directory) >>> warning: hal-info: /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ (No such >>> file or directory) >>> warning: hicolor-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ (No >>> such >>> file or directory) >>> warning: network-manager-applet: /etc/gconf/schemas/ (No such file or >>> directory) >>> >>> >>> All these directories are empty in their package. They appear to have >>> been >>> removed when I uninstalled a different package that had files in that >>> directory. >>> >>> Maybe we need some more checking before removing an empty directory. >>> >>> Allan >>> >>> >> >> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/009008.html >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15668 >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11263 >> > > I had a fair suspicion this had been discussed before... I just did a > "wtf?" when I saw /opt had disappeared. > > I'm going to create a pactest for this.
Agreed- I think we've just tried to ignore this in the past because we knew the solution would require a lot more overhead, but it probably makes sense to add a test and re-open FS#11263 for this. -Dan
