Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:29:22 -0700 (PDT) From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> To: jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Josh MacDonald) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, karl@mcs.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports explosion Message-ID: <199608130729.AAA21578@relay.nuxi.com> 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)
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