[arch-dev-public] Strange behaviour of pacman

[Daniel Isenmann]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble to understand why pacman left some files on the
filesystem, but the package was removed. According to this bug report:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16414 pacman left the listed directories
and files on the filesystem. I have try to reproduce it and it's true,
the files are on the filesystem. My first thought was about the
'emptydirs' option in the PKGBUILD
(http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/wicd/repos/extra-i686/PKGBUILD),
but that wasn't the solution, the files are still there.

I can't determine why this happens, any ideas from your side?

 -Daniel