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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

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?

Bob
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