On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 01:20 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > The FC3 Release Notes say: > > ============= > RPM's default behavior regarding file conflicts in Fedora Core 3 has > changed. In the past, file conflicts (where a file from one > already-installed package also appears in a package that is to be > installed) caused the installation of the package containing the > conflicting file to abort. > > In Fedora Core 3, RPM will ignore such conflicts, and the package > installation will proceed, overwriting any conflicting files from > previously-installed packages. > ============ > > What's the rationale for this? The url below seems to give a clue. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131766
