On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 03:32:24PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carsten Hey <cars...@debian.org> writes: > > > Besides "/usr -> /", are symlinks to directories still supported as > > top-level directories and are there still people using such a setup? > > If nobody uses this anymore, the policy could be adapted to the year > > 2011. > > Is there any reason *not* to continue supporting them? They can > definitely save you as a short term measure to work around a bad > partitioning scheme until one can fix it by reformatting.
A reason might be that now we have bind mounts which are generally much more robust than symlinks. That was not the case where this policy was written. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
