dmnks left a comment (rpm-software-management/rpm#3750)
> There's also one scenario which I don't see mentioned here, which is
> [managing](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32253018) one's dotfiles with
> something like [GNU Stow](https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/manual/stow.html)
> (which I personally do). In such a case, I'd already have a symlink at
> `~/.rpmmacros` which points to my dotfiles.git repository somewhere else,
> which the automatic migration would break.
I stand corrected - having actually looked at this patch, it does bail out if
the old files aren't regular files, which means if one has a custom symlink
such as `~/.rpmmacros -> ~/.dotfiles/rpmmacros`, the migration simply wouldn't
execute.
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