Re: invisible application after upgrade.

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2021-04-11 23:02 UTC+02:00, home user <mattisonw@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2021-04-11 6:38 UTC+02:00, home user <mattisonw(a)comcast.net&gt;:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>> This isn't necessarily a good idea, because those dangling symlinks
>> may belong to their respective packages. If so, removing them will
>> compromise the integrity of the package they belong to.
>
> I don't fully understand.  Of what use is a link to nowhere?

Let me show you an example.

$ rpm -qV hunspell
$ symlinks /usr/share/doc/hunspell/
dangling: /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README -> README.md
# rm  /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README
$ rpm -qV hunspell
missing   d /usr/share/doc/hunspell/README
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