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Re: symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa



Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> wrote:
> If you want to replace a directory with a symlink, and the directory
> still contains files, what do you do with these files?

Indeed, symlinks colliding with existing directories should give an
error while package installation. And IMHO this could even be done pre
etch, since this should just not occur.


regards
   Mario
-- 
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories
to suit facts.                   -- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle



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