Re: Shall we state about #17624 dpkg feature(bug?)
Previously Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Isn't the system administrator is discouraged from manipulating filesystem
> objects that should be under the control of the packaging system? If she
> wants to distribute files over different filesystems, there are better ways
> (like mount, especially in 2.4.x).
He could play tricks with bind-mounts, but that is Linux specific, and
then even for 2.4 kernels. It should definitely be possible to distribute
things different over filesystems if the admin so desires.
> I don't quite understand what you're saying. What would cause those other
> files to disappear? The symlink could be unpacked as foo.dpkg-new, then the
> old directory removed and/or renamed and the symlink switched into place.
There might be extra files in the place the symlink points to that suddenly
would no longer be available.
Wichert.
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