Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-15 16:47:41 CEST]:
>> So, is there any reason at all to use relative symlinks? > > Quite some times I experienced them to be more pain than gain, too. It > might be useful if people shift around complete hierarchies, but we are > not really speaking of package-internal symlinks here usually. And Debian doesn't support relocatable packages in general anyway. We should clearly use relative symlinks within the same directory, and probably from a directory to a subdirectory, but I do wonder about the merits of any symlink containing ../. I'm not sure what we'd lose by making any symlink that climbs directories absolute instead of relative, and I think we'd definitely gain from having somewhat less weirdness and breakage in corner cases. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
