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Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.
- From: Frederik Fouvry <fouvry at CoLi dot Uni-SB dot DE>
- To: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:00:01 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: FEATURE REQUEST: make uninstall should delete empty directories.
- Reply-to: Frederik dot Fouvry at CoLi dot Uni-SB dot DE
,-- On Wed, 3 Mar, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
[...]
| It is not always easy to see if a directory is empty. For example,
| when NFS is being used, sometimes .nfs files are created in the
| directories, so the directory is not really empty.
Won't remove commands refuse to clean up a directory if it's not
empty?
But related to this, there's also the issue of directories
symlinked to automounted directories. I can imagine that might
lead to problems.
Frederik Fouvry