Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.

[Daniel Reed]

On 2004-03-02T08:34-0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
) On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Hans Deragon wrote:
) >    When performing a "make uninstall", I notice that it only deletes the 
files,
) > not the empty directories.  It would be nice that after removing a file, it
) > removes all the empty directories recursively.  For example:
) If a package supports creating the directory /usr/local (as Automake
) does by default) should this directory be recursively removed if a
) package is uninstalled?

Not if it is non-empty after everything subordinate to it installed as part
of the package has been removed.

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