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Re: Packages with empty directories



Le mercredi 21 novembre 2007 à 14:08 -0500, Daniel Schepler a écrit :
> Some of the common false positives are /var/lib/<pkg> or /etc/<pkg>, or 
> subdirectories under one of those.  Since <pkg> often doesn't match the 
> binary package name exactly, I don't see any easy way to detect these cases.

What I'm suggesting is to grep for them in maintainer scripts. Any empty
directory created in /etc and which isn't used in the maintainer scripts
is likely to be a mistake.

OTOH, subdirectories of /var/lib, /var/log and /var/cache look like good
candidates for exclusion.

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