Comment 36 for bug 633636

Do we have an official / known good snippet for converting a *directory* into a *symlink*? I can't seem to find one anywhere. Converting a *symlink* into a *directory* isn't so bad as it's relatively trivial to remove a symlink in pure lua, but recursively removing a populated directory seems to be a much bigger problem, and I'm damned if I can find a snippet that looks trustworthy enough to use. Does anyone have one?

I'm currently sitting on two or three packages where I *really need* to replace a directory with a symlink, and I'm pretty stuck. :(