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From: Nils Steinger <git@n-st.de>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs-progs: Add uninstall targets to Makefiles.
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:48:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140725134848.GA14867@ny.voidptr.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140627123201.GB1553@twin.jikos.cz>

I apologize for the long hiatus.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:32:01PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:40:40PM +0200, Nils Steinger wrote:
> > On my system, man8dir didn't exist prior to the installation, so I
> > thought it would be reasonable to have the uninstallation routine remove
> > it.
> 
> According to the FHS [1] the manX directories do not have to exsit, so
> this part shall stay.
> 
> [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES
> and then note #32
> 
> > bindir and libdir will exist by default on most systems, so that's a
> > different case…
> > So, should we really keep the directories around, even if they were
> > created by the installation and are now empty (if they aren't, they
> > won't be removed anyway)?
> 
> But we don't track if the directories were created by the installation
> or not.  Normally the directories would exist anyway (/usr or /usr/local
> as prefix) and are expected to exist at the locations. Installation to
> arbitraty directory works, but managing the directories is IMO up to the
> user.
> 
> So are you ok with keeping bindir and libdir only (ie. removing only
> man8dir)?

Yes, that should be sensible. I've updated my patch accordingly and
resubmitted it few minutes ago.

Regards,
Nils

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-20 19:48 [PATCH] btrfs-progs: Add uninstall targets to Makefiles Nils Steinger
2014-06-20 19:48 ` Nils Steinger
2014-06-23  1:57   ` Satoru Takeuchi
2014-06-23  2:23     ` [PATCH v2] " Nils Steinger
2014-06-23  2:33       ` Satoru Takeuchi
2014-06-23 15:04       ` David Sterba
2014-06-25 19:40         ` Nils Steinger
2014-06-27 12:32           ` David Sterba
2014-07-25 13:41             ` [PATCH v3] " n.st
2014-07-25 13:48             ` Nils Steinger [this message]
2014-08-14 19:36             ` Nils Steinger
2014-08-14 19:36 Nils Steinger

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