On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 04:12, RedShift <redshift@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That seems like something dangerous to do, what if package A installed for > example, /var/lock/mysoftware/ to keep locks for multiple purposes, and you > install package B, which replaces /var/lock/mysoftware/ with a file called > /var/lock/mysoftware (because /var/lock/mysofware/ happens to be empty at > that point), causing package A to break. > > Not only does it give the potential to break software (bad) instead of > erroring out (good), it gives inconsistent results across multiple systems. > Agreed.
