Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> thing out. If the point is to minimize subdirectories, why bother
> having directories with only one or two files?

  To accomodate such things as 'files/Makefile' and the like (see
Hubert's list for more examples).  OTOH, we could move 'files/md5' and 
'files/patch-sum' to the top level and only create a files subdirectory
for packages that need them.

  Cheers
      ,
   Rene