Hi, > Richard> I think the symlink should be absolute, not relative. > Richard> /usr/doc is a likely directory to be symlinked to somewhere > Richard> else by the sysadmin (for example, to deal with this > Richard> transition :-), and the normal reason for using relative > Richard> links (that the link should still work if the filesystem is > Richard> mounted in an unusual place) is not very important here. > > Hmm. I am almost convinced. Opinions, folks?
As one of the people likely to do this (ie. symlink /usr/doc to /usr/share/doc/this_used_to_be_usr_doc) it would seem to me that absolute symlinks would be a little more robust in this case. Also has anybody considered that sysadmins who do desire to have symlinks in /usr/doc to the package dirs in /usr/share could create them for themselves with lndir(1x) or some similar tool.. (yes I know this greatly lacks the polish of some other solutions offered, but there seems to be some division still over the desirability of us creating such a symlink farm by default.. ??) best, Ron.
