Re: fistfight between libc6-dev and joystick
Hi,
>>"Dale" == Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
Dale> To satisfy old package upgrades it should be sufficient to only
Dale> remove them if they are symbolic links. This will stop
Dale> libc6-dev from eating the contents. Note, however that this
Dale> behavior must have existed for all early packages, as, even
Dale> with linux being a link to the headers, the include file for
Dale> joystick will go away each time the header dependency changed.
Actuall, when the /usr/include/{asm,linux,scsi} et al were
symbolic links, then the rm -rf /usr/include/{asm,linux,scsi} would
just remove the links, and not the stuff added like the joystick.h.
Now, when it is a real dir, the bug is tickled. The moral of
the story seems to be "Do not use -r option for rm unless you
absolutely have to".
manoj
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