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


From: Frederik Fouvry
Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:00:01 +0100 (CET)

,-- On Wed, 3 Mar, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

[...]

| It is not always easy to see if a directory is empty. For example,
| when NFS is being used, sometimes .nfs files are created in the
| directories, so the directory is not really empty.

Won't remove commands refuse to clean up a directory if it's not
empty?

But related to this, there's also the issue of directories
symlinked to automounted directories.  I can imagine that might
lead to problems.

Frederik Fouvry




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