Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Don't use absolute links. > >From policy version 2.5.0.0: > > 4.5. Symbolic links > ------------------- > > In general, symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be > relative, and symbolic links pointing from one toplevel directory into > another should be absolute. (A toplevel directory is a sub-directory > of the root directory `/'.)
You forgot to quote the rationale :) I think this should be an exception, for the reasons I've given. Since we're amending policy, we can easily specify an exception to this general rule. Richard