[pacman-dev] difficult symlink "puzzle"

[ngaba at petra.hos.u-szeged.hu]

> I'm confused about what is the actual problem, and what's the solution
> you propose for fixing it.
OK, let me explain (again.-):
We have a theoretical coolplayer package, which have the following 
naming scheme: /usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0/ ... and also have a 
/usr/lib/coolplayer/current symlink, which points to 2.0. Package 
coolplugin installs a file to /usr/lib/coolplayer/current (so to 
/usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0). pacman -S updates coolplayer 2.0 to 2.1, 
which is a remove then install process. So the symlink 
/usr/lib/coolplayer/current is deleted and then set to 2.1 dir. And now 
the content of coolplugin is in /usr/lib/coolplayer/2.0, the package is 
broken, some files are out of pacman's control!
Bye, ngaba

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