From owner-freebsd-commit Sat Apr 22 19:04:14 1995 Return-Path: commit-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA10035 for commit-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:04:14 -0700 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA10021 for cvs-other-outgoing; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:04:08 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA10008 ; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:03:53 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA17437; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:06:01 -0700 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id TAA24754; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:03:40 -0700 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199504230203.TAA24754@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-other@time.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <9504230259.AA16999@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Apr 23, 95 03:59:05 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 667 Sender: commit-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Sure, > > the user probably gets a lot more directories in /usr/foo than they > > expected, but that's the breaks. I think the gain is worth it. > > This is where we disagree: I prefer some redondant rules in a Makefile > to a lot of empty directories through my disk. look at it this way, you can remove all the directories you don't want: find /usr/local -depth -print | xargs rmdir that's easy, getting god knows how many Makefiles right is much worse... You loose... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'