From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 5 11:43:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD6114CA5 for ; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:43:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EA35DF3; Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:43:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:43:48 -0800 From: Chris Piazza To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @dirrm for share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES in PLIST Message-ID: <20000105114348.A665@norn.ca.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from saper@system.pl on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:22:43PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:22:43PM +0100, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > > I found the following in a2ps-{a4,letter...} PLIST: > > @dirrm share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/ca > @dirrm share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/cs > @dirrm share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/da > @dirrm share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/de > @dirrm share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/es > @dirrm share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES > @dirrm share/locale/fr > ... > > So when deinstalling, the pkg_delete(1) reports, that is > unable to delete those directories - since other apps > installed their locale data there, too. > > Should we put @dirrm for them? > I see that many localized X apps try to remove them on deinstall... I generally don't. These directory entries aren't worth the bother to remove just in case there's nothing left in them. I don't know if there's a rule about this, but that's what everyone seems to be doing. -Chris -- cpiazza@jaxon.net cpiazza@FreeBSD.org Abbotsford, BC, Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message