Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:32:10 -0700 From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU> To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, karl@mcs.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports explosion Message-ID: <199608130732.AAA24541@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:29:22 PDT." <199608130729.AAA21578@relay.nuxi.com>
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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) Let's not talk about sloppy while we're still using CVS. -josh
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