Re: beagles eating my /var filesystem

["Brian J. Murrell" <brian interlinx bc ca>]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 11:59 -0500, D Bera wrote:
> Hi again,

Hi,

> One more thing, if --disable-directories is used (as is done for
> application and documentation index crawl-rules),

Indeed.  I can confirm this point here.

>  then the whole
> --enable-deletion will not work.

:-(

> Directories are not be stored in the
> index and so there is no way of knowing if a directory is dirty or
> not. A --enable-force-deletion kind of option will be helpful in this
> case.

Hrm.  This seems to be a defect in the basic infrastructure then.  It
seems that no amount of different/missing options should allow the index
to keep around stale data.

b.