[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Panu Matilainen]

On 03/09/2014 04:49 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> Directory and file interaction is a hard problem. There's no right thing
>> to do in this case.  The many possible things we could do all have one
>> drawback or another in certain cases.
>
> The right thing is clear: If all the files inside the directory are owned by
> packages about to be removed in the transaction, just rm -rf the directory
> (or rather the equivalent in C code), otherwise rename it with a suffix
> (.rpmsave, if necessary .rpmsave0, .rpmsave1, … , .rpmsave10, …) and only
> delete the files owned by packages about to be removed in the transaction.

Right. CLEARLY this would've been Just The Thing to do when /bin changed 
from a directory to a /usr/bin symlink. Right?

	- Panu -