In article <26605.935449323@splode.eterna.com.au>, matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes: > this file is _not_ created by the ircII package. it should not be > removed by it. In that case your package must handle the case that "share/irc" is not empty which it doesn't. Kind regards -- Matthias Scheler http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/