Re: Disk defragmenter in Linux

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi
> And more to the point, where third-party RPMs fit into
> the picture.  In RedHat-land they are almost always made
> to fit into the vendor-provided scheme, clobbering system
> files if there is a conflict.

It shouldnt do that. RPM packages are supposed to create a .rpmnew file 
if the preexisting configuration files are modifed. The rules governing 
such changes are documented in detail in several guides. See 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/RPM. If packages dont honor such 
rules then it can be consider a bug with those specific packages rather 
than RPM itself.  Do file bug reports as appropriate.