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Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.
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Daniel Reed |
Subject: |
Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories. |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:48:27 -0500 (EST) |
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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