Re: [SLUG] Safe ? or not !

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 21:17:57 EST


On Wednesday 04 February 2004 11:40 am, Ian Blenke wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
> > RPM is probably just trying to be tidy by removing directories,
> > which will only succeed if they're empty.
>
> It's merely a warning, not an error.
>
> The upgrade script for whatever RPM you are installing is merely
> checking to see if those directories are empty so that it might clean
> up after itself. There are almost definitely OTHER packages installed
> that do have files in those directories - you do NOT want to remove
> them if you want those other packages to function properly.
>
Thanks for replying guys. Guess I will just leave them alone. There
may or may not be extraneous files/packages that exist there and never
to be used again, but how would one know for sure. Use up a little
extra space on the HD. Oh well !!

Thanks again,
Bob S.

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