[arch-dev-public] /var/empty

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 19:23, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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?

-Dan