In article <26605.935449323@splode.eterna.com.au>,
   	matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
   > this file is _not_ created by the ircII package.  it should not be
   > removed by it.
   
   In that case your package must handle the case that "share/irc" is
   not empty which it doesn't.


what to do then?  i don't know packages very well.