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

[Peter Kehl]

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