Deleting empty directories... Is it appropriate?

kaveiros · 2010-09-12 16:45:30

Recently I uninstalled cpufrequtils from my system with pacman -Rns cpufrequtils.
I noticed though that some empty folders remain such as /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/.
Should I manually delete it ? Is that ok? Is there a script to do this automated? I locate empty directories with fslint.
Generally what happens if a package gets removed and empty directories of it remain in the system?

graysky · 2010-09-12 17:42:19

I don't believe that is a directory you want to remove... it is there with or with the cpufreq package.

karol · 2010-09-12 17:48:14

It's in /sys, so let it be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysfs

Last edited by karol (2010-09-12 17:52:34)

dcc24 · 2010-09-12 18:22:13

Unless you know exactly what you are doing, never ever EVER delete anything from /sys

kaveiros · 2010-09-12 23:09:07

Thank you all for your replies.. I was just curious about left over directories after unistallation of pacckages

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Deleting empty directories... Is it appropriate?

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