[arch-general] [transcode] Updated PKGBUILD

[Xavier]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:35 AM, Daniel J Griffiths
<ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>
>> Is it actually required to be completely empty? I thought it was just
>> assumed to be empty, but that wasn't a requisite
>>
>>
>
> In some, if not all, situations it is required to be completely empty.
>

How do you manage to send an answer in one thread to a different
thread ? Is it thunderbird doing that ?

I see in the headers :
References: <4AEE2C74.4010404 at yahoo.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <4AEE2C74.4010404 at yahoo.com.ar>

This is clearly Gerardo's mail about transcode PKGBUILD, and not
Aaron's mail about /var/empty.