[arch-dev-public] /var/empty

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Shouldn't /var/empty be created by filesystem package,
> instead of by packages that require it? (like openssh and openntpd)

It is. 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.

-Dan