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From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ports explosion
To: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Josh MacDonald)
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:29:22 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, karl@mcs.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199608130405.VAA23872@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> from Josh MacDonald at "Aug 12, 96 09:05:17 pm"
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> May I suggest:
> 
> if [ -d patches -a "`echo patches/patch-*`" != "patches/patch-*" ]; then 
> # do stuff
> fi
> 
> instead of the current [ -d patches ]?

This could be quite useful.  I've heard of simular problems like this
before on the list/newsgroup.  However, it does promote sloppiness...
since there would be little modivation to remove empty directories.

-- David    (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)