diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
index 42944a63bb..0e839681c7 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
@@ -5824,9 +5824,12 @@ PLIST_SUB=      OCTAVE_VERSION=${OCTAVE_VERSION}</programlisting>
       </sect1>
 
       <sect1 id="plist-cleaning">
-	<title>Cleaning up empty directories</title>
+	<title>Empty directories</title>
 
-	<para>Do make your ports clean up after themselves when they are
+	<sect2 id="plist-dir-cleaning">
+	  <title>Cleaning up empty directories</title>
+
+	<para>Do make your ports remove empty directories when they are
 	  de-installed.  This is usually accomplished by adding
 	  <literal>@dirrm</literal> lines for all directories that are
 	  specifically created by the port.  You need to delete subdirectories
@@ -5841,7 +5844,7 @@ lib/X11/oneko/sounds/cat.au
 @dirrm lib/X11/oneko</programlisting>
 
 	<para>However, sometimes <literal>@dirrm</literal> will give you
-	  errors because other ports also share the same subdirectory.  You
+	  errors because other ports share the same directory.  You
 	  can call <command>rmdir</command> from <literal>@unexec</literal> to
 	  remove only empty directories without warning.</para>
 
@@ -5851,6 +5854,22 @@ lib/X11/oneko/sounds/cat.au
 	  &man.pkg.delete.1; to exit abnormally even if
 	  <filename><makevar>PREFIX</makevar>/share/doc/gimp</filename> is not
 	  empty due to other ports installing some files in there.</para>
+	</sect2>
+
+	<sect2 id="plist-dir-empty">
+	  <title>Creating empty directories</title>
+
+	  <para>Empty directories created during port installation need special
+	    attention.  They will not get created when installing the package,
+	    because packages only store the files, and &man.pkg.add.1; creates
+	    directories for them as needed.  To make sure the empty directory
+	    is created when installing the package, add this line to
+	    <filename>pkg-plist</filename> above the corresponding
+	    <literal>@dirrm</literal> line:</para>
+
+	  <programlisting>@exec mkdir -p %D/share/foo/templates</programlisting>
+	</sect2>
+
       </sect1>
 
       <sect1 id="plist-config">