Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink
On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 09:02:57PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Well, what if debootstrap or whatever set up a /usr/doc link then? Or
> base-files could just as easily do this on a new install.
>
> I don't entirely like this idea, since it means exercising a novel and
> fairly untested code-path in every postinst of every package, and I'll
> bet some will break. And it means that when we work on removing /usr/doc
> entirely in the next release, we will have to worry about getting rid of
> this symlink too. Inconsistency^WDifference breeds bugs.
But getting rid of a symlink which is not included in a package is
probably significantly easier than anything else we've done in this
transition.
You probably have a point, though, about potential breakage.
Julian
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