Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:42:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> 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. > Well, users are not feeling they are "relocating" a package when > replacing one of its directories by a symlink to elsewhere; after all, > paths of the form /original/package/file/patch still work. That wasn't the sort of relocation that I meant. My point was that using relative symlinks to support moving a tree of installed files to some other different path (from /usr/lib to /opt/foo, say) isn't something that our package manager supports. But your other message lays out a scenario where that does make sense. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
