On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:21:49AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Joachim> I think, the uninstall should _not_ 'rm -rf' but only 'rm' the > Joachim> files (and 'rmdir' directories, but not recursively) that it > Joachim> created, and that have not been modified in the meantime (after > Joachim> the installation). > > That's not sufficient. Suppose file C (e.g. /usr/local/etc/mime.types) is > in both packages A and B. > > Install A - this will create C > Install B - this might overwrite C, saving a copy, or it might retain > A's copy.
An install should never overwrite an existing file. The sane thing is to fail installing B by default (dpkg does this for example). An option to override this might be useful though. -- Debian GNU/Linux -- The Power of Freedom www.debian.org | www.gnu.org | www.kernel.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
