Request for volunteers to help track down packages that use /usr/X11R6

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Wed Aug 31 10:24:01 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 12:08 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Peter Lemenkov wrote :
> 
> > # ln -s /usr /usr/X11R6
> > 
> > and forget about this problem...
> 
> Not sure how serious you're meaning to be, but it's worth pointing out
> that this is a typical complete blocker with rpm : Replacing a directory
> with a symlink is impossible, unless the directory is empty and some %pre
> scriplet takes care of removing it. Well, you've also got the option of
> "extreme ugliness", but I'm pretty sure Mike wants to avoid that (and he
> should! ;-)).

The only packages that own the dir are filesystem and (ugh) vnc-server.

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