Proposal: removeDirectoryRecursive should not follow symlinks

[David Feuer]

Do we need a separate compatibility package for just this function?
Not many people will want to try to roll their own.

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Eric Mertens <emertens at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's no option which avoid needing to fix all packages on hackage, so
> each maintainer using this function will be responsible for fixing his
> packages.
>
> If we fix it in place everyone needs to add CPP to avoid calling the broken
> version on old versions of directory and use an alternative implementation.
>
> If we make a new function everyone needs to conditionally call the new
> function or use an alternative implementation.