On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:29:09 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >>>> I've solved that in the > >>>> preinst script by 'rm -rf /usr/include/libfm' and I thought yet that was > >>>> a right step since upgrade 1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 went smooth. > >>>Somehow that sounds like a really bad idea to me. Admittedly manually > >>>placing some file in /usr/include/libfm is pretty ugly, but I would > >>>still certainly not expect that upgrading the libfm package would remove > >>>it. > >>>Is that really good practice? Can packages "own" a directory, so that > >>>anything that the local admin puts there may be removed automatically? Yes, there's no guarantee that a directory belonging to a package will be there after the next upgrade. > No, I'm afraid I don't have any good suggestion for the problem at hand. > I'm writing this mostly as a user who gets really concerned when he reads > rm -rf. On my laptop: % grep 'rm -rf' /var/lib/dpkg/info/* | wc -l 183 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Funny van Dannen: 1000 Dinge
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