Bug#40706: Reasons for not moving at all

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:08:26PM +1000, you wrote:
> Perhaps someone would like to upload a .deb that does nothing more than
> maintain symlinks?
> 
> Something as simple as having a /etc/cron.daily script that does:
> 
> 	[ -d /usr/doc ] || exit 0
> 
> 	cd /usr/share/doc
> 	for dir in *; do
> 		[ -e "/usr/doc/$a" ] || ln -s /usr/share/doc/$a /usr/doc/$a
> 	done
> 	
> seems to me like an acceptable solution at this point.

Uh huh. And who handles the dangling symlinks you leave when a package
gets uninstalled?

Mike Stone