Re: invisible application after upgrade.

[home user]

On 4/11/21 3:46 PM, Andras Simon wrote:
> 2021-04-11 23:02 UTC+02:00, home user :
> > > 2021-04-11 6:38 UTC+02:00, home user <mattisonw(a)comcast.net&gt;:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > This isn't necessarily a good idea, because those dangling symlinks
> > > may belong to their respective packages. If so, removing them will
> > > compromise the integrity of the package they belong to.
> >
> > I don't fully understand.  Of what use is a link to nowhere?
>
> Let me show you an example.
>
> $ rpm -qV hunspell
> $ symlinks /usr/share/doc/hunspell/
> dangling: /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README -> README.md
> # rm  /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README
> $ rpm -qV hunspell
> missing   d /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README

I've started a new thread "dangling symlinks and upgrades" to continue this.