[arch-dev-public] Best way to force file overwrites in a package?

[Thayer Williams]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Dienstag 03 Juni 2008 00:43:53 schrieb Thayer Williams:
>> Is this possible?
>
> I think so. Just build a new icon-set like crystalsvg-arch which symlinks to
> the original theme excpet for the icons you want to replace. (Or maybe just
> provide the different icons and KDE will fallback automatically. But I am not
> sure about this)

I considered building a separate iconset, but the user would still
have to enable it after installing the package. Since it only replaces
the kmenu.png icon I thought a complete theme (or theme name) would be
overkill.

Dang it.  I guess there's no other way...