Freshening RPMs and obsolete files

From: Tristan Miller (psychonaut_at_nothingisreal.com)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:31:20 +0200

Greetings.

Say I install an RPM foomatic-1.0.rpm which contains the files /usr/bin/foo
and /usr/bin/foo_helper. Some months later the project maintainers merge
the functionality of foo_helper into foo and release a new RPM
foomatic-2.0.rpm which now contains only /usr/bin/foo.

If I install this new RPM using rpm --freshen or rpm --update, will the
old /usr/bin/foo_helper file be automatically deleted, or will it remain
in my filesystem wasting space?

Regards,
Tristan 

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