On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 05:50:05PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > If I'm not mistaken, one of the reason Debian made symlinks in > /usr/doc is that there was software in Debian (for example, web servers) > which used such symlinks. no the symlinks in /usr/doc were created because dpkg was broken in slink and early potato making upgrades impossible if /usr/doc was simply turned into a symlink to share/doc outright. once all packages are moved to using /usr/share/doc the /usr/doc symlink will be removed. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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