From 3aeaed41e715bcfb8e90e070bf6b050532cdda97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume Morin Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 15:10:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] removed empty directories bug --- stow.texi | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/stow.texi b/stow.texi index c4454ac..d06998f 100644 --- a/stow.texi +++ b/stow.texi @@ -770,25 +770,6 @@ something that doesn't need reporting, such as a ``false conflict'' @chapter Known bugs @itemize @bullet -@item -The empty-directory problem. If package @var{foo} includes an empty -directory---say, @var{foo}/@var{bar}---then: - -@enumerate -@item -if no other package has a @var{bar} subdirectory, everything's fine. - -@item -if another stowed package, @var{quux}, has a @var{bar} subdirectory, -then when stowing, @var{targetdir}/@var{bar} will be ``split open'' and -the contents of @var{quux}/@var{bar} will be individually stowed. So -far, so good. But when unstowing @var{quux}, @var{targetdir}/@var{bar} -will be removed, even though @var{foo}/@var{bar} needs it to remain. A -workaround for this problem is to create a file in @var{foo}/@var{bar} -as a placeholder. If you name that file @file{.placeholder}, it will be -easy to find and remove such files when this bug is fixed. -@end enumerate - @item When using multiple stow directories (@pxref{Multiple stow directories}), Stow fails to ``split open'' tree-folding symlinks