Shawn Walker wrote:

> >We have an RFE somewhere (can't find it right now) which would allow you to
> >tag a directory as exclusive to a particular package, so that when the
> >directory was removed, any remaining files would simply be torched, rather
> >than salvaged.  But we've never sat down and hashed out what should happen
> >if more than one package delivers the directory (either consistently
> >exclusive or a mix), so no one's ever gone forward and implemented it.
> 
> 7134806 pkg has no notion of legitimately unpackaged bits in a packaged
>         directory, and will move them

The concept is mentioned in that bug, but that's not really what it's
about.  There's enough crufty discussion in that bug now that it probably
should just be closed, unless we really want to magically deal with cases
where truly unrelated bits are in a directory owned by a package that's
going away.

Danek
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