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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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To: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>
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Subject: Re: Ports explosion 
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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