Richard,

> > which shouldn't be an issue for empty directories which just create build
> > noise.  Otherwise, I agree in principle, but it would be very useful if the
> > distributed bits could match package boundaries (or useful new split-off
> > packages) if at all possible. 
> 
> Most definitely, I wasn't attempting to disagree with that :)
> (though if the these packages moved into closed/pkgdefs that wouldn't be 
> such an issue, no?).

no, provided that directories only referenced from closed packages don't
get included in the closed tarball.

> There are a few empty directories in the closed tarball that serve a 
> purpose, and aren't worth splitting out (I believe two or three locale 
> directories, I assume created by the libc_i18n build?), but mostly I 
> suspect the empty directories are an artifact of the way the tarball is 
> generated.

I haven't yet noticed any of those, only the two onces
(usr/include/sys/ib/adapters/tavor and usr/share/javadoc) mentioned in my
message.

        Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
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