> In practice installation script of an external package does
> --del-package before --add-package, because if it was
> installed before,
> --add-package would cause an error.
>
> Wouldn't be reasonable then to let --add-package overwrite
> any existing
> package of that name? There is no real safety, because the package
> is explicitly deleted anyway.
I don't think I agree. Installation of an external package shouldn't be
doing --delete-package first: that should be left to the user (or rpm
-e, or whatever). If you want to install a new package that replaces an
existing one, you have to remove the existing one first.
Cheers,
Simon
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