Date: 01 May 2000 13:29:29 -0700 From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami) To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lists of files and directories missing from PLIST Message-ID: <vqcitwydnfa.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn's message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 15:30:42 %2B0200" References: <200005011330.PAA04307@peedub.muc.de>
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* From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> * I'm wondering about ports like vile and xvile (which I maintain) which * share directories (specifically lib/vile and doc/vile). If a user has * both installed and decides to delete on of them we don't want to pull * the rug out from under his feet by arbitrarily nuking everything. According to the handbook, you can do something like @unexec rmdir %D/lib/vile 2>/dev/null || true to remove the directory only if it is empty, and fail quietly if it doesn't so the user doesn't get scared. * We could force the install of files common to 2 or more ports into * unique directories, but then the user ends up with redundancies. The * other possibility would be to check dependencies and see whether the * files to be deleted are required by another installed port, but that * can get hairy. Yes, that's too hairy. :) Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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