Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: union: Add create-all-directory? parameter to union-build

["Huang\, Ying" <huang_ying_caritas@163.com>]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> yeah, I've looked at it and I see what you are trying to do.
>
> You modified 'union to replicate the directory tree and symlink only the non-directory files - in order to be able to add "fonts.dir" in those directories.
>
> The previous version symlinked entire directories, too, and you wouldn't have been able to add those "fonts.dir" files inside them later.
>
> Your fix seems kinda hacky - but I don't really see a downside.
>
> Thinking about it some more I think it looks good enough to me. I'd like a second opinion, though.
>
> Other than that, the name of the new flag "create-all-directory?" is weird. I'd like it to be something like "create-all-directories?".

OK.  Will change it.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying

> (The non-hacky solution would be to make 'union aware that there are
> "fonts.dir" files to go in there, too. One could do that by adding
> these as an input, too. I'm not sure whether that would be worth the
> added complexity, though - especially since the fonts.dir generator
> needs to have the finished union as input and not just single
> directories one by one. Thoughts?)