Chuck Youse wrote:
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is meant by a "variant link", and
> what might one be used for?
A symlink that has a variable name embedded in it. It can be quite
useful at times; consider a symlink such as: /usr/local/bin/bash ->
/usr/local/{karch}/bin/bash, where {karch} can be automagically
expanded into i.e. i386-FreeBSD3.1 or sparc-NetBSD1.4 or hppa-hpux10.
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