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Date:      Sat, 22 Apr 1995 19:03:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-other@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile
Message-ID:  <199504230203.TAA24754@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504230259.AA16999@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> from "Jean-Marc Zucconi" at Apr 23, 95 03:59:05 am

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>  > Sure,
>  > the user probably gets a lot more directories in /usr/foo than they
>  > expected, but that's the breaks.  I think the gain is worth it.
> 
> This is where we disagree: I prefer some redondant rules in a Makefile
> to a lot of empty directories through my disk.

look at it this way, you can remove all the directories you don't want:

	find /usr/local -depth -print | xargs rmdir

that's easy,

getting god knows how many Makefiles right is much worse...

You loose...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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