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


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 04:48:45 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> The reason why I mentioned /usr/local is because it is a shared
> directory.  I could also have mentioned /usr.  While it seems nice for
> a package to 100% clean-up after itself, a bug could cause the package
> uninstall to accidentally remove the operating system.

It's also not easy to see if a directory is not shared.  For instance some
packagers comment-out ncurses' terminfo uninstall because they have local
terminal entries, etc., that are unsuitable for inclusion in ncurses.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
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