On Mar 9, 2014 7:49 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at> 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),
Yes, the simple case is simple. > 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. > But this is where the answers start to have drawbacks. As just one example, renaming the directory will break other packages which installed files into that directory. -Toshio
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