On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700
Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing
an empty directory, but I could be wrong...
That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the
post-merge clean phase. Were it
Andrej Kacian wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005 17:37:53 -0700
Drake Wyrm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always thought that they were to keep 'emerge unmerge' from removing
an empty directory, but I could be wrong...
That, and to keep portage from removing empty directories during the
post-merge
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there
to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be
possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are
merged to / ?
Or do .keep files serve another purpose, not obvious to
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there
to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would it be
possible to just remove them from live filesystem after package files are
merged to / ?
On Sunday 22 May 2005 05:38, marduk wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only there
to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time image. Would
it be possible to just remove them from live
marduk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 22:28 +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
Are .keep files necessary in a live filesystem? AFAIK they're only
there to keep portage from removing a directory from emerge-time
image. Would it be possible to just remove them from live filesystem
