Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:03:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-other@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile Message-ID: <199504230203.TAA24754@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <9504230259.AA16999@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Apr 23, 95 03:59:05 am
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> > 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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