Re: [arch-general] pacman bug? (can't replace dir with file)

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:12, RedShift <redshift@pandora.be> wrote:

That seems like something dangerous to do, what if package A installed for example, /var/lock/mysoftware/ to keep locks for multiple purposes, and you install package B, which replaces /var/lock/mysoftware/ with a file called /var/lock/mysoftware (because /var/lock/mysofware/ happens to be empty at that point), causing package A to break.

Not only does it give the potential to break software (bad) instead of erroring out (good), it gives inconsistent results across multiple systems.

Agreed.