>Number:         37087
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       pkg_delete should remove empty directories automatically
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 09 10:35:00 +0000 2007
>Originator:     Roland Illig
>Release:        N/A
>Organization:
>Environment:
N/A
>Description:
When removing a package, pkg_delete should remember all directories where files have been removed, and at the end try to remove these directories if they are empty.

This would make many @dirrm lines in PLIST files superfluous. It would also make the *-dirs packages needless, as far as I have understood the concept behind them.

Packages that need an empty directory under $PREFIX then need a way to explicitly specify this. I expect the number of these packages to be fairly small.

>How-To-Repeat:
grep -r ^@dirrm $pkgsrcdir

>Fix: