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removed empty directories bug

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Guillaume Morin 2002-01-05 15:10:43 +00:00
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@ -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