On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:17:56AM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > What good, valid purpose is there for a > > package to have a dangling symlink? > > I could imagine it being used as a kind of placeholder, but I wouldn't > call it elegant.
Firefox, for example, uses a dangling symlink to represent a lock file in your firefox profile directory. A bunch of different applications do the same thing, so it's not incredibly unusual to see them in your homedir. -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
