Comment 7 for bug 633636

There are multiple contexts of interpretation here while ROSA
is participating with ROADMAP planning through January 20th.

From a purely @rpm5.org "forward" POV, the ability to replace
a directory with a symlink is absolutely ESSENTIAL.

There are several known good "workarounds" including %pretrans
with lua. Whether using
     %pretrans -p <lua>
handles all possible "upgrade" cases is a separate issue than whether
a symlink is created before file resolutions are pre-computed during
install is a different issue in need of further testing.

Whether ROSA deems the ability to replace a directory with a symlink
as important on a Mandriva/ROSA 2012 release deliverable is up to others
to decide than me.

MHO, is that this is essential functionality going "forward" @rpm5.org: the rate
of deployment is due to other factors.