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Re: Bug#40706: usr/share/doc vs. /usr/doc



On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 02:10:02PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
> If I remember, dpkg does not like replacing a directory with a
> symlink. This may or may not still be the case.

Or vice versa.

I can attest to this.  This little landmine blew up in my face about 100
times while I was reorganizing X before I learned to be paranoid and avoid
it.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson              |   The errors of great men are venerable
Debian GNU/Linux                 |   because they are more fruitful than the
branden@ecn.purdue.edu           |   truths of little men.
cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |   -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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