[kde-freebsd] extra dirrectories to remove

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Friday, 10. December 2004 21:13, Chuck Swiger wrote:

>  > No other package system I'm aware of emits such a warning - probably
>  > because the authors were aware of the fact that things like shared
>  > directories do exist and packages aren't guaruanteed to completely clean
>  > up behind themselves (and likewise no other package system needs to
>  > bother creating pseudo-packages to own those directories).
>
> Sure, there exist package systems which don't work properly, just as there
> are packages which don't have correct packing lists.  I think the FreeBSD
> ports system does a really good job of tracking ports consistently and
> reproducably, although at the price of nitpicking over details.

Yes, it does a good job, just the warning is bogus. Why? Because it suggests 
that the packing list is incorrectly specified when exactly the opposite is 
true and it _is_ correct and covers all files and directories. I already have 
given in to implement the workaround to avoid the bogus warning, but it is a 
workaround, not a fix (which would be to eliminate the bogus warning in 
pkg_delete - possibly by more complex means than just stopping to print it).

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