There are dozens of methods/techniques that could be used, copying to a new clean physical directory was mine. I can now symlink the old locations back to the new content if I want to use the packages outside of a PAR. Furthermore I think it is better to use a physical location when explaining a concept that might be used on platforms that don't support symbolic links. But at the time of the writing and creating my script it simple made sense to me, but I encourage others to do what makes sense for their environment/mindset.