Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 11:43:48 -0800 From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@jaxon.net> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: @dirrm for share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES in PLIST Message-ID: <20000105114348.A665@norn.ca.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0001051912390.15993-100000@tricord.system.pl>; from saper@system.pl on Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:22:43PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0001051912390.15993-100000@tricord.system.pl>
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On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:22:43PM +0100, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>
> I found the following in a2ps-{a4,letter...} PLIST:
>
> @dirrm share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/ca
> @dirrm share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/cs
> @dirrm share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/da
> @dirrm share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/de
> @dirrm share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/es
> @dirrm share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
> @dirrm share/locale/fr
> ...
>
> So when deinstalling, the pkg_delete(1) reports, that is
> unable to delete those directories - since other apps
> installed their locale data there, too.
>
> Should we put @dirrm for them?
> I see that many localized X apps try to remove them on deinstall...
I generally don't. These directory entries aren't worth the bother
to remove just in case there's nothing left in them. I don't know if
there's a rule about this, but that's what everyone seems to be doing.
-Chris
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