[pacman-dev] Removing empty directories

[Xavier Chantry]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> I just noticed this:
>
>> pacman -Qk | grep "^warning"
> warning: filesystem: /opt/ (No such file or directory)
> warning: hal: /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ (No such file or
> directory)
> warning: hal-info: /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ (No such
> file or directory)
> warning: hicolor-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ (No such
> file or directory)
> warning: network-manager-applet: /etc/gconf/schemas/ (No such file or
> directory)
>
>
> All these directories are empty in their package.  They appear to have been
> removed when I uninstalled a different package that had files in that
> directory.
>
> Maybe we need some more checking before removing an empty directory.
>
> Allan
>
>

http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/009008.html
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15668
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