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cubancigar11
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:32 pm Post subject: Why do we need .keep

Why do we need a .keep file in each directory? I find it poses difficulty in bash completion as it always becomes another option

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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:51 pm Post subject:

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The .keep files are there to prevent portage from deleting important directories when you unmerge something that would cause those directories to be empty.

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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 8:57 pm Post subject:

Thanks a lot. This was bugging me from a long time. Bookmarked.

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Tyris wrote:

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