Re: Essential packages (Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Darren Salt wrote:
> You /could/ get away with symlinks or (better) hard links, with an explicit
> check on the leafname; however, the implemented methods avoid any reliance on
> specific leafnames.

Indeed, and it is GNU policy to never rely on the name a binary is
called with, hence the change.

Wichert.

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