On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > After purging emacs today, the damn thing deleted my /usr/local symlink since > it was the last package to have /usr/local in it. Obviously this is not very > clever.
Would have this happened if base-files contained /usr/local as an empty directory? Since dpkg follows symlinks, you would be able to remove /usr/local, create a symlinks, and you would be still able to upgrade base-files without problems. Also, in the case /usr/local is a read-only partition, would dpkg give an error when "overwriting" (overlapping, really) an empty directory by the one provided in the package? If not, I think this could be a solution to this problem. -- "da5756474c9bb42366c62ebc9b970ab7" (a truly random sig)
