On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Daniel J Griffiths <ghost1227@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Roman Kyrylych >>>> <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:23, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Roman Kyrylych >>>>>> <roman.kyrylych@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Shouldn't /var/empty be created by filesystem package, >>>>>>> instead of by packages that require it? (like openssh and openntpd) >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> It is. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> It is not: >>>>> $ pacman -Ql filesystem | grep empty >>>>> $ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem is these packages "install" it in their tarball, so >>>>>> when you remove one of them and pacman sees an empty directory left >>>>>> behind, it thinks it is no longer necessary and removes it. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes, I know this, but what I suggest is to fix in in a different way: >>>>> installing it as part of filesystem and fix packages to not install it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Or just install /var/empty/.$pkgname or something silly like that >>>> >>> >>> And then defeat the purpose of having a completely empty directory? >>> >> >> Is it actually required to be completely empty? I thought it was just >> assumed to be empty, but that wasn't a requisite >> >> > > In some, if not all, situations it is required to be completely empty. > How do you manage to send an answer in one thread to a different thread ? Is it thunderbird doing that ? I see in the headers : References: <4AEE2C74.4010404@xxxxxxxxxxxx> In-Reply-To: <4AEE2C74.4010404@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This is clearly Gerardo's mail about transcode PKGBUILD, and not Aaron's mail about /var/empty.
