[gobolinux-devel] Directories as unmanaged files

[Jonas Karlsson]

On 19/02/2008, Michael Homer <michael at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 10:14 PM, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > The current implementation of unmanaged files does not support
> > directories fully. So I have a question, should the current
> > implementation be extended or should another mechanism,
> > unmanaged_directories be implemented?
> I guess this was prompted by the bug about RemoveProgram? I don't
> think directories should be removed (or, at least they should be
> specially prompted for), since they could have had contents added
> afterwards that shouldn't necessarily be removed. An
> unmanaged_directories seems like the only real way to do that.

After some further discussion on IRC the consencus was that we should
keep it as today, where files and empty directories are deleted, but non-
empty directories should be noted and presented to the user as not
taken care of and those would have to be manually deleted.

Any further views?
-- 
/Jonas