few ideas how to make fedora better as a desktop

[Les Mikesell]

Chris Adams wrote:
> 
>>>> You can't just symlink /sbin to /bin, because that will blow up RPM
>>>> very badly.
>>>>
>>> Why's that? Could/should rpm not be fixed?
>> Yes, anything that doesn't traverse symlinks transparently deserves to 
>> be blown up.
> 
> It isn't the traversal that is the problem.  The problem is changing an
> existing directory to a symlink.  For example, what if there are still
> files in the directory?  Also, IIRC part of the problem was because rpm
> installs all the new files and then removes the old ones (so how do you
> install the new symlink while the old directory is there with lots of
> files).

This is something that would be better done starting with a new install. 
   Otherwise it would have to be in the scripted section of the rpm and 
it couldn't be quite atomic to move the old contents and replace the 
directory with the link.

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   Les Mikesell
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