Lately I've noticed that when XFree86-devel is installed / deinstalled 
multiple times (that's what my rebuilding script does) a large number of 
symlinks are made in /usr/include:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 21 14:18 
/usr/include/X11;3c99ddb5 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 21 15:15 
/usr/include/X11;3c99eaea -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 21 15:22 
/usr/include/X11;3c99ecaf -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 21 17:21 
/usr/include/X11;3c9a0896 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Mar 21 17:29 
/usr/include/X11;3c9a0a80 -> ../X11R6/include/X11/
...
..
.

there are 785 of these in my /usr/include directory now.

These symlinks are preventing XFree86-devel from being installed again. 
The only remedy is to remove the X11;* symlinks.

Is this planned behaviour or is this a bug?

I can't find any %pre or %post script that could cause this...

with kind regards,

Stefan van der Eijk.


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