On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Bob Stia wrote:
> Need advice on a procedural kind of thing.
>
> Recently upgraded some files. RPM gives me the following message after
> having completed the upgrade.
>
> cannot remove /usr/share/themes - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk/themes/engines - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk/themes - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/engines - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0 - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 - directory not empty
> cannot remove /usr/lib/gtk - directory not empty
>
> Question is can I go in and delete them manually? Afraid to do that
> because I am not sure whether they are needed or not and I will break
> something. There is an awful lot of stuff in there using a lot of
> space if it is not needed.
To test, you can move the contents of /usr/share/themes and
/usr/libgtk/themes and /usr/lib/gtk-2.0 and /usr/lib/gtk temporarily (say,
tar | bz2 and rm, or move to /some/location) temporarily and see if you
notice some ill effect. I suspect you will, although there's probably
some stuff in there left behind when you upraded a program.
RPM is probably just trying to be tidy by removing directories, which will
only succeed if they're empty.
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