[pacman-dev] Pacman failing with existing symlinks on the install path

Dear Pacman maintainers, On current 4.19.16-1-MANJARO x64, I had /opt as symlink to /share/opt. I went to install current Google Chrome 72.0.3626.81-1 from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/google-chrome (either by GNOME's Add/Remove Software, or by sudo pacman -U google-chrome-72.0.3626.81-1- x86_64.pkg.tar.xz). It failed with: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) google-chrome: /opt exists in filesystem Knut Ahlers, the maintainer of AUR Google Chrome package, responded that the package doesn't check for the symlinks. Hence it's probably pacman. Have you/would you consider supporting existing symlinks on the install paths, please? Thanks in advance, -Peter Kehl Vancouver, B.C., Canada